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Release Date: September 29th, 2006

Running Time: 139 minutes

U.S. Box Office: $54,343,887

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

Director: Andrew Davis

Starring: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Neal McDonough, Melissa Sagemiller, Clancy Brown

Critics Reviews: 5 out of 10

Reelviews There's nothing in The Guardian that audiences haven't previously been exposed to ad nauseam. Take a little of An Officer and a Gentleman and a little Top Gun and throw in some waves and underwater sequences, and you have The Guardian - only with less charismatic actors, more tame sex scenes, and a lot less energy. James Berardinelli

San Francisco Chronicle "The Guardian" has the feel of a Sunday feature in a newspaper more than a drama. It tells the story of Coast Guard rescue swimmers, something most people don't know about, and shows, in a curiously uninflected way, how they train and what they do. Mick LaSalle

The Boston Globe Age has ripened Costner into a wiser figure. But moping, self-pity, and martyrdom don't become him at all. The point of all this solemnity may be to pay serious respect to those rescue swimmers, who courageously look after errant kayakers or victims of Hurricane Katrina. Wesley Morris

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