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The Guardian (I) (2006)
6.7
Ratings: 6.7/10 from 42,226 users
Metascore:
53/100
Reviews: 272 user | 133 critic | 29 from Metacritic.com 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. Director:Andrew DavisWriter:Ron L. Brinkerhoff |
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Co-Pilot Wakefield
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Julian Zankich
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Mitcheltree
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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... Written by John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
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When lives are on the line, sacrifice everything. See more »Parents Guide:
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Guardianes de altamar See more »Box Office
Budget:
$70,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$18,006,064 (USA) (1 October 2006) (3241 Screens)Gross:
$54,983,983 (USA) (31 December 2006)Company Credits
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Capt. William Hadley: There is a legend of a man who lives beneath the sea. He is a fisher of men, the last hope of all those who have been left behind. Many survivors claim to have felt his gripping hands beneath them; pushing them up to the surface; whispering strength until help could arrive. But this, of course, is only a legend.
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Written by Richard Davis, Chris 'Hambone' Cameron, Cheryl Wilson and John Rice
Performed by Cheryl Wilson See more »
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The production company hired local contractors to build a massive indoor wave pool for production. See more »Goofs
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the C-130 overflew the rescue chopper crash site, they chose to use the sound from a multiengine reciprocating aircraft such as a DC-3. The proper sound would have been from turbine powerplants; the C-130 has turboprop powerplants and they do not sound like reciprocating powerplants. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Capt. William Hadley: There is a legend of a man who lives beneath the sea. He is a fisher of men, the last hope of all those who have been left behind. Many survivors claim to have felt his gripping hands beneath them; pushing them up to the surface; whispering strength until help could arrive. But this, of course, is only a legend.
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"Friday Night"Written by Richard Davis, Chris 'Hambone' Cameron, Cheryl Wilson and John Rice
Performed by Cheryl Wilson See more »
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