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Guarding Tess
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Guarding Tess

A comedy beyond the call of duty.
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User Score351 ratings
TMDB 6.016+19941h 36mEnglish
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

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.

Director
Hugh WilsonFrom TMDB credits
Studio
Channel Films2 production companies
Release
March 11, 1994Released
Box Office
$27MBudget $20M

Top Cast

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Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine
Tess Carlisle
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage
Doug Chesnic
Austin Pendleton
Austin Pendleton
Earl
Edward Albert
Edward Albert
Barry Carlisle
James Rebhorn
James Rebhorn
Howard Shaeffer
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths
Frederick
John Roselius
John Roselius
Tom Bahlor
David Graf
David Graf
Lee Danielson

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Reviews

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CinemaSerf
Aug 26, 2023

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.

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