Thanks for the memories!

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

This is a very pleasant movie without a lot of sex and violence. It concerns a man in his 30's who is uncertain which direction his life should go after being a lifeguard since high school. At his high school reunion fifteen years later he begins to wonder where to go. A nomadic woman on the beach wants him and his former flame in high school wants him back in her life. Look for Jimmy Van Patten and Parker Stevenson starting to gear up their careers back then. An unexpected outcome and overall good movie that makes all of us wonder about our purpose out there in life. Shot around Hermosa Beach in the wonderful summer of '75. Sit back and enjoy it.

Sam Elliott is a lifeguard for a living. Maybe he's running away from life or the real world not having a more professional career. Maybe he's running away from people or his own problems. But from where he's sitting it's a beautiful day every day. And, he feels the benefit of feeling needing and making a difference in the peoples' lives he saves. Also starring Parker Stevenson and Anne Archer, this is a very laid back and moody film, but those are its assets. The film shows the days in the life of a lifeguard, with the supposed advantages and disadvantages to it, and the film excels at giving the viewers complicated, three-dimensional characters. And, Sam Elliott is perfectly cast. He is given an opportunity to get a car salesman job after attending a class reunion, but he's torn by the love of his job and the pull to fit in with the norm. What will he do? The viewer has a good idea, because what would you do?

Sam Elliot plays the coolest lifeguard ever! Gals will love this because , well Sam is so hot (speedos,nice abs,70s porn mustache)and guys will love the never ending stream of babes that pursue him ( the stewardess,the buxom receptionist,the high school sweetheart and the adorable,hormonal teenager. By the way, Kathleen Quinlan plays a memorable role in this film,adorable and sultry at the same time.What a lovely girl and so talented at a young age! I love this film,I purchased it,had viewed it in the 1970's(with the parents!!! and never forgot it).I watch it often and never tire of the cute story and realistic look at the 70's beach culture! It reminds me of youthful summer days at the beach(that's all I'm telling!). This movie was well casted,every character was well acted,perfectly chosen for the roles they played.The music ,as well, is amazing,beautiful summery songs. A real reflection of the 1970's for me and hopefully for you too.. If this was not reality for you,I'm sure it was one of your fantasies.

Word has it that when LIFEGUARD finally got onto an airing on the network, an exec looked at it and ordered a flunkie to rip the film off as a TV series. And thus was BAYWATCH born....But do not judge this fine film by its bastard child. LIFEGUARD is a fine bit of nostalgia for the California beach lifestyle that few of us actually experienced but saw A LOT OF in the movies and TV. It's also a bittersweet coming-of-MIDDLE-Age movie reflecting the realities then beginning to face the youth-obsessed Baby Boomers.Sam Groom is, as always, incredibly good. I don't think he's capable of making a bad flick.