The Bodyguard (1992) - Episode 92

The Rewind Movie Podcast

And you're ready to die for me? Rewind icon Kevin Costner is back, minus the iconic mullet, in Mick Jackson’s 1992 perils-of-superstardom thriller The Bodyguard.

Rachel Marron (a debuting Whitney Houston) is an lauded actress and megastar singer living with her young son in a sprawling, entourage-filled mansion. When a stalker’s repeated threats materialise in an explosive near-miss after a bomb is planted in her dressing room, her manager hires Frank Farmer (Costner), a former presidential bodyguard, to reluctantly lead her security team. While Frank’s heavy-handed tactics create tension with his flighty and feisty new ward, the two grow closer as the danger intensifies - leading to an iconically intense culmination at the Academy Awards.

Originating as an early script by an emerging Lawrence Kasdan that took a circuitous decade and a half to reach the screen, the eventual film exploded into cinemas in a veritable supernova of hype - a collision between the preeminent musical diva of the moment and a megastar actor fresh off some of the biggest hits of the new decade. Turbocharged by Whitney’s powerhouse, Dolly Parton-covering tie-in single spending 10 weeks atop the UK charts, the critical reception was far less kind than the box office receipts. DId the glitz and glamour hold up for Gali, Patrick and Matt, or were they left lamenting a sequin-studded flop?

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