Reeling with grief in the wake of a mission gone tragically wrong, legendary rescue swimmer ben randall costner is given a mission he doesnt want training raw recruits. Movie interview by clyde baehr ashton kutcher arrives looking very smart. Actually, the putative star of the guardian is aston kutcher. Shelby fenner, trevor rabin, andrew davis, kevin costner, ashton kutcher.
He is cocky and brash just what youd expect of ashton kutcher. Costner, kutcher promote movie at coast guard station august 29, 2006 alameda, calif. In the new movie the guardian, kevin costner plays a grizzled instructor of coast guard rescue swimmersif your cruise ship hits an iceberg, page themand ashton kutcher is his cocky recruit. Everything you need to know about the guardian movie 2006. Kevin costner, ashton kutcher, neal mcdonough, melissa. Coast guards a school, where legendary rescue swimmer ben randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and selfsacrifice. The training pool used in the movie was lsushreveports natatorium. At 27 kutcher is at the top age limit for us coast guard applicants but he has a swimmers build and youthful looks, so. From andrew davis, the director of the actionadventure classic the fugitive, and starring kevin costner, ashton kutcher and a cast of veteran and breakout stars comes the guardian, a riveting, whiteknuckle story of hardcore courage and selfless sacrifice set inside the neverbeforeseen world of coast guard rescue swimmers. And the coast guard guys, man, they were there for me. During the scene in kevin costners office after the bar brawl involving ashton kutcher and his coast guard buddy hodges, the title of the newspaper from which costner reads about kutcher s car accident is the cedar rapids chronicle. Is the training in the movie the same of that in real life. I loved this movie it was an outstanding movie with kevin costner and ashton kutcher about training for life in the coast guard and costner taking in kutcher as his protoge.
Ashton kutcher plays a young recruit who proves very talented but needs discipline. The film focuses on the united states coast guard and their aviation survival. Gives a different prospect of what the coast guard is, did me any way. And even though kevin costner gives the same performance, the movie is not a redo of. The film focuses on the united states coast guard and their aviation survival technician program. A coast guard rescue swimmer kevin costner, who still mourns losing his crew in a fatal accident, copes by dedicating his life to training new recruits, so when he meets swimming champion jake.
Kevin costner, ashton kutcher, sela ward, melissa sagemiller. The guardian is a 2006 american actionadventure drama film directed by andrew davis. While some critics praised the chemistry between the two actors and kutcher s performance others, like chicago readers j. Unter regisseur andrew davis arbeitete kevin costner in diesem film zum ersten mal mit seinem 23 jahre jungeren schauspielerkollegen ashton kutcher zusammen. Crowd packs elizabeth city movie theater for guardian. It is personally one if not my favorite part in a movie.
Costners character in the film teaches coast guard rescue swimmers, including kutcher, who plays a cocky swim champion training to become a rescue swimmer. The guardian is about a coast guard rescue swimmer named ben randall. The coast guard gets its chance for a heroic movie tribute, but the guardian does it no justice, borrowing cliche after cliche from other and better military. Davis does it again with the guardian, a wearisomely familiar tale about a brave yet tragic us coast guard instructor costner of rescue swimmers and his frictionfilled training of a new kid on the block ashton kutcher. Ashton kutcher stars alongside the infamous kevin costner in this action adventure. Hes assigned to teach at the coast guard rescue school after a particularly hairy mission off the coast of alaska and gives the overconfident, boastful young ashton kutcher a very difficult time. Gave me more respect for our men and women risking their lives so that others may live, the coast guard. The guardian isnt the worst aquathemed movie of kevin costners career.
The finest hours 2016 the coast guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of cape cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952. The coast guard gets its chance for a heroic movie tribute, but the guardian does it no justice, borrowing cliche after cliche from other and better military branch movies. Guardian crew saw real heroism in action hollywood. Costner, kutcher promote movie at coast guard station. This is truly a great movie about the coast guard and all of the performances are great especially the ending of. Stay in the know with the latest movie news and cast interviews at. In the film, kevin costner plays a legendary rescue swimmer currently instructing at a school the coast guard s rescue swimmers school. Serviceable actioner starting the nearly always reliable kevin costner. The finest hours best coast guard film not starring ashton kutcher by specialist skeeter willis, article 107 culture editor this article first appeared in article 107 news january 29, 2016. With a family member in the coast guard and active in search and rescue it was. A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the u. The title of the film refers to a legendary figure within the film which protects people lost at sea. Rent the guardian 2006 starring kevin costner and ashton kutcher on dvd and bluray. Kevin costner and ashton kutcher star in the guardian, the powerful, action packed drama that takes you inside the neverbeforeseen.
Hollywood to begin filming new coast guard movie that no. Kevin costner and ashton kutcher in coast guard movie. Ben is having issues at home and his wife decides to ask him for a divorce. It created unity between myself and the other guys and they took it seriously, and the movie benefited. This is a good action movie even for people who dont necessarily like the typical action movie. Compared with the other branches of the united states military, the coast guard has been underrepresented in american movies, no doubt. The movie is a story about two coast guard rescue swimmers. Great memorable quotes and script exchanges from the the guardian movie on. With kevin costner, ashton kutcher, sela ward, melissa sagemiller. The coast guard conducted the largest search and rescue missions for a single man in its history, but the body of senior chief ben. The human frailties and strengths of their respective characters were incredibly played by both. He encounters a guy named jake whos a little cocky because he was once a swim champion. I have to say this is one of ashton kutchers better performances.
Top 5 will ferrell hilarious movie scenes duration. The guardian is an action movie, a basic training movie. But like his character, ben randall, a coast guard rescue swimmer, mr. By the numbers plot but great acting, characters make you forget that formulaic but entertaining ben randall kevin costner is a rarity in the coast guard. Ben needs to recover his nerve, while cocky student jake ashton kutcher. A school, an elite training program for coast guard rescue swimmers. Kutcher is actually from cedar rapids, iowa although the real name of the paper is the cedar rapids gazette. Ben has been at the top of his field for some time as part of the aviation survival technician program. Coast guard s a school, where legendary rescue swimmer ben randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and selfsacri fice. Man lemme tell you what, i dunno what other folks are thinkin but i loved the hell out of that new boat movie the.
Kutcher plays jake fischer, a high school swim champion with a troubled past, who joins a coast guard s highprofile school. Kostner and kutcher are at their best and good together. The coast guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of cape cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952. Rent the guardian 2006 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. The guardian andrew davis, kevin costner, ashton kutcher. When his crew is killed in an accident and his marriage ends, his commander tells him he wants randall to go to the us coast guard rescue swimmer a school to train other rescue swimmers. Kevin costner and ashton kutcher star in the guardian, the. Kevin costner and ashton kutcher star in the guardian, the powerful. Hollywood to begin filming new coast guard movie that no one will watch by slab squatthrust 3 years ago 3 years ago hollywood a new actionthriller movie based on true experiences from a searchandrescue unit is set to be the next coast guard movie that no one will actually watch, sources confirmed today. The film stars kevin costner, ashton kutcher and melissa sagemiller. The guardian 2006 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. There are lots of good action and cinematography scenes in this, and the training scenes are firstrate. Today, costner and costar ashton kutcher will work with 75 offduty coast guard extras before wrapping up the local filming.
With chris pine, casey affleck, ben foster, eric bana. Reeling with grief in the wake of a mission gone tragically wrong, legendary rescue swimmer ben randall costner is given a mission he doesnt want training raw. August 29, 2006 kevin costner and ashton kutcher visited a u. Coast guard and its rescue swimmers, who date from 1984, the new movie. Kevin costner, ashton kutcher, sela ward iam not owner of this video and this soundtrack. Aside from a title sequence that uses still photographs to illustrate of history of the u.
While some critics praised the chemistry between the two actors and kutchers performance others, like chicago readers j. Coast guardsmen become extras on costnerkutcher movie. The guardian 2006 movie mistakes, goofs and bloopers. When legendary rescue swimmer ben randall is appointed to teach at an elite coast guard school, hes compelled to skillfully train and inspire cocky upstart jake fischer to excellence, courtesy of some unorthodox coaching methods. Kevin costner stars as a recordholding coast guard rescue swimmer who is now training new rescue swimmers. This long, characterfocused action movie about a coast guard training program paired kutcher with kevin costner. Kevin costner and ashton kutcher star in the guardian, the powerful, actionpacked drama that takes you inside the neverbeforeseen world of the elite coast guard rescue swimmers. I was surprised by how much i really enjoyed this movie.
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