The Guardian

The Guardian

How do you decide who lives or who dies?

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Release Date

9/28/2006

Runtime

139 mins

Overview

A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$10,000,000

Revenue

$94,973,540

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A muscular drama about training, loss, and learning to live with what you can't save. It balances the exhilaration of physical achievement with the weight of impossible moral choices.

Mood

BittersweetMelancholicHopeful

Themes

RedemptionComing of ageGriefSurvivalFriendship

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Two-hander

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Graphic violence

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