Liz W. Garcia's The Lifeguard Movie Review. br Subscribe to CineFix -- br br The Lifeguard celebrated its premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and Ben Lyons was on the scene. Hear his 60-second take on the film, which as of now does not have a distributor. br br Kristen Bell plays former valedictorian who 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.