Guarding Tess

1994

PG-13

1h 36m

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Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—the widow of a former U.S. President, and a close personal friend of the current President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed, and—after returning—wants off her detail as she is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands.

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Hugh Wilson

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Hugh Wilson(screenplay by)

PJ Torokvei(screenplay by)

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Shirley MacLaine

Nicolas Cage

Austin Pendleton

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Tess Carlisle

Doug Chesnic

Earl

Barry Carlisle

Howard Shaeffer

Frederick

Tom Bahlor

Lee Danielson

Ralph Buoncristiani

Joe Spector

Bob Hutcherson

Kenny Young

Kimberly Cannon

Charles Ivy

Neal Carlo

Jimmy

Barbara

Caleb Harrison

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Hugh Wilson

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Hugh Wilson(screenplay by)

PJ Torokvei(screenplay by)

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6/10

Shirley MacLaine ("Tess") is on good form in this rather daft tale of a pretty cantankerous former First Lady who has a running battle with her Secret Service agent Nicolas Cage ("Doug") as he tries to keep her within his security protocols - an exasperating task that is mostly an uphill struggle. A series of fun face-offs ensue as she and her team - chef Richard Griffiths and chauffeur Austin Pendleton run the poor old Cage ragged before, unexpectedly, she goes and gets herself into a bit of bother that mobilises just about the entire nation. "Tess" has got some good one-liners and there is a fair amount of chemistry between the pair as their love/hate relationship begins to pan out in this quite watchable comedy drama.

Geronimo196726 Aug, 2023