The Guardian
2006 · Movie · PG-13 · 139 min · ★ 7.1 · 45% critics
An ambitious young swimmer with a difficult past joins an elite Coast Guard rescue-swimmer training program, where a hardened instructor pushes recruits to their limits. As the training intensifies, both mentor and trainee confront grief, pride, and what it truly means to risk everything so others can live.
Also known as Coast Guards
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Details
- Years
- 2006
- Release date
- 2006-09-28
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 139 min
- Critic score
- 45/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 (1,679 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a heartfelt, patriotic training-and-rescue drama with intense sea missions and a mentor-versus-hotshot dynamic; Not for you if you dislike predictable stories or long stretches of training scenes, like in Scorpion.
Pros: tense ocean rescues; strong mentor-student bond; inspiring perseverance themes | Cons: familiar formula; long training stretches; uneven land drama
Themes
- rescue
- ocean
- coast guard
- disaster
- death
Cast & crew
Kevin Costner
as Ben Randall
Ashton Kutcher
as Jake Fischer
Sela Ward
as Helen Randall
Melissa Sagemiller
as Emily Thomas
Dulé Hill
as Ken Weatherly
Bryce Cass
as Manny
Omari Hardwick
as Carl Billings
Clancy Brown
as Capt. William Hadley
Neal McDonough
as Jack Skinner
- BC
Benny Ciaramello
as Benny Partida
Directed by Andrew Davis