Guarding Tess

Release Date: 1994-03-11

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.

Rating: 5.982 / 10

Cast

Shirley MacLaine

as Tess Carlisle

Nicolas Cage

as Doug Chesnic

Austin Pendleton

as Earl

Edward Albert

as Barry Carlisle

James Rebhorn

as Howard Shaeffer

Crew

Nancy Graham Tanen - Producer
Michael Convertino - Original Music Composer
Hugh Wilson - Screenplay
Sidney Levin - Editor
Hugh Wilson - Director

Reviews

CinemaSerf:

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 t...