From an article on msn.com right now about the ten greatest high school movies!  Guess who is given most of the credit for this movie being #9 of all time!  

http://movies.msn.com/movies/moviesfeature/highschool?GT1=7701


9. "My Bodyguard" (1980)

Tony Bill's "My Bodyguard" is better than it has any right to be. Its David and Goliath story is a cookie cutter set for yucks, easy inspiration and a big payoff that, as a critic looking to get quoted might write, leaves the audience cheering. But then it becomes a lot more than the nerdy new kid Clifford (Chris Makepeace) enduring the high school bully (Matt Dillon) who steals his lunch money when the 98-pound weakling hires himself a real Goliath, a moody, brooding hulk named Linderman (Adam Baldwin). In spite of the scary rumors surrounding Linderman (that he raped a teacher and murdered his brother), Clifford seeks out the bad boy, at first to simply make his hellish high school existence endurable. But as the two hang out, he learns more about the so-called school "psycho" -- that the poor kid is gripped with guilt about the accidental death of his brother, his family life is tragic and he's reverted to a shell because his life contains little joy. Both performances are astoundingly touching (especially Baldwin, who manages to be incredibly real, poignant and then actually kind of scary) and the movie works as a darkly sweet ode to all of the freaks and geeks slouching through the hallways, hoping for a real friend.