Clifford Peache is a sensitive, well-to-do teen who becomes the target of bully Melvin Moody after he starts attending a new school. Clifford then acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.
Does the typical "spiritual uplift" routine without feeling saccharine or insincere.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
February 14, 2011
That's why I keep coming back to My Bodyguard: It continually reveals new layers of truth about what it's really like to be a teenager, whether an outcast, a bully or the bullied.
This movie is fun to watch because it touches memories that are shared by most of us, and because its young characters are recognizable individuals, and not simplified cartoon figures like so many movie teen-agers.
