The Lifeguard

2013

Action / Drama / Romance

38
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 27% · 32 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 27% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 15551 15.6K

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Plot summary

A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.

Director

Liz W. Garcia Photo
Liz W. Garcia

Top cast

Kristen Bell Photo
Kristen Bell as Leigh
Amy Madigan Photo
Amy Madigan as Justine
Joshua Harto Photo
Joshua Harto as John
Adam LeFevre Photo
Adam LeFevre as Hans
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729.34 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 3
1.51 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by playboi-96678 7 / 10

Good movie

I thought this was a really good movie.Whats bullshit is Netflix has movies like this with 1 or 2 stars that people don't watch and pass up because of the low ratings. I wish they would give IMDb ratings so that I could really gauge what to give a chance.But anyways, again I thought it was a really good movie, with a realistic plot and story line. I thought it would have a "lifetime" feel to it but it had a life of its own. If you don't have much to do, and you have an hour or two on your hands to watch a movie, I suggest this one.
Reviewed by mharah 4 / 10

Kristen Bell is good as always. The rest of it...well...

The script is mediocre. The dialogue is particularly clunky. Liberal use of the F word is not offensive; it's just awkward. Kristen Bell is always good, but she seems to end up in one unworthy role after another. (I wasn't a big fan of Veronica Mars, but it was a quality project and should have resulted in better roles than this.) Plenty of problematic scripts get made into movies. Part of the actors' jobs is to make them work. Silk purse out of a sow's ear, as they used to say. Gummer and Starr and Madigan all seem to think that overacting is the answer to the challenge. It isn't. Sincerity isn't achieved by overacting. Lambert's character has some wonderful moments and some very weak ones. He could have benefited from the strong hand of a director, but there is little evidence of that in this film. Shaffer, so wonderful in Win Win, is completely wasted here. All in all, Bell fans will probably need to see it. (With no make-up, she looks every bit her real age.) The rest of you can skip it.
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