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A trainer (Kevin Costner) in a Coast Guard program for rescue swimmers turns a cocky recruit (Ashton... (Learn more)

Starring: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Neal McDonough (View All)

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Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher in The Guardian. (Photo: Touchstone)
About The Guardian

Starring: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Neal McDonough

The US Coast Guard version of "Top Gun" with a little "An Officer and A Gentleman" thrown in: an aging USCG rescue swimmer's team is killed in a horrific rescue mission. Immediately prior to this terrible event, his wife also announced that she cannot take anymore. His first love is always the rescue mission. This leaves him an obviously emotional wreck. His commender gives him a choice - quit or take a position as an instructor at the USCG training facility in Louisiana. Reluctantly he takes the position. Moving into the school, he immediately increases the 18 week curriculum that routinely fails half of the people that attend. Here he meets a young man with unlimited potential, but with some secret that seems to hold him back as a team player. Delving into his past, links are found that make him a psychic twin to the older man. Thrown into the midst of the story is a romance with a local girl. Rescue missions punctuate the beginning and end of the story with the training sessions the center of the film.

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Quick Facts

US Release Date

9/29/06

MPAA Rating

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action/peril, brief strong language and some sensuality

Running Time

139 mins.

Locations

  • Shreveport, Louisiana, USA

Language

  • English

Box Office Total

$54,983,983

Awards

  • Nominated for a Best Original Song award at the 2006 Satellite Awards [Festival/Award] Awards.

Distributor

  • Beacon Pictures
  • Buena Vista
  • Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
  • Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment
  • Touchstone Pictures

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