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Guarding Tess (1994)

PG-1303/11/1994Comedy, Drama1h 36m
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A comedy beyond the call of duty.

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Shirley MacLaine

    Tess Carlisle

  2. Cast 1

    Nicolas Cage

    Doug Chesnic

  3. Cast 1

    Austin Pendleton

    Earl

  4. Cast 1

    Edward Albert

    Barry Carlisle

  5. Cast 1

    James Rebhorn

    Howard Shaeffer

  6. Cast 1

    Richard Griffiths

    Frederick

  7. Cast 1

    John Roselius

    Tom Bahlor

  8. Cast 1

    David Graf

    Lee Danielson

  9. Cast 1

    Don Yesso

    Ralph Buoncristiani

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...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$20,000,000.00

Revenue $27,058,304.00

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