Amazon.com Essentials:
This 1992 crowd pleaser made almost as much money for Whitney
Houston as its chart-busting soundtrack. A high-wattage star vehicle
as only Hollywood can make, The Bodyguard stars Houston as a
pop-music diva (now there's a stretch) and Kevin Costner as the
stern bodyguard who is assigned to protect her after the singer
receives some nasty death threats. Pop star and bodyguard don't hit it
off at first, but they wear down each others' defenses, and before
long Houston is baring her tonsils with a rousing rendition of the
Dolly Parton chestnut "I Will Always Love You." The film,
written by Lawrence Kasden, was originally intended for Steve McQueen,
but the script languished for years before Houston took an interest in
the project. A proposed sequel would potentially have starred Costner
and Princess Diana, until Diana's tragic death precluded that
possibility. --Jeff Shannon
Amazon.com Essentials:
This 1992 crowd pleaser made almost as much money for Whitney
Houston as its chart-busting soundtrack. A high-wattage star vehicle
as only Hollywood can make, The Bodyguard stars Houston as a
pop-music diva (now there's a stretch) and Kevin Costner as the
stern bodyguard who is assigned to protect her after the singer
receives some nasty death threats. Pop star and bodyguard don't hit it
off at first, but they wear down each others' defenses, and before
long Houston is baring her tonsils with a rousing rendition of the
Dolly Parton chestnut "I Will Always Love You." The film,
written by Lawrence Kasden, was originally intended for Steve McQueen,
but the script languished for years before Houston took an interest in
the project. A proposed sequel would potentially have starred Costner
and Princess Diana, until Diana's tragic death precluded that
possibility. --Jeff Shannon
