A charming melodrama and character study of Sam Elliot’s titular lifeguard. Looks as good as a film about endless summer at the CA beach should look. Can’t say I was fully on board with the main character’s decisions (ummm a lot of his decisions are highly questionable) - but they are fully his own.
It is kind of amazing that a 30+ year old lifeguard can afford the lifestyle he has in this film. By the looks of his apartment, it pays at least as well as Philip Marlowe in The Long Goodbye
Have to think this at least was in the back of the heads of the people who created Baywatch.
An understated gem.