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Guarding Tess (1994)

6 | Mar 11, 1994 (US) | Comedy, Drama | 01:36
Budget: 20 000 000 | Revenue: 27 058 304

A comedy beyond the call of duty.

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.

Featured Crew

Screenplay, Director
Stunts, Stunt Coordinator
Unit Production Manager, Associate Producer
Stunts
Supervising Sound Editor
Costume Design
Casting
Key Makeup Artist
Key Hair Stylist

Cast

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Shirley MacLaine
Tess Carlisle
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Nicolas Cage
Doug Chesnic
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Edward Albert
Barry Carlisle
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James Rebhorn
Howard Shaeffer
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John Roselius
Tom Bahlor
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David Graf
Lee Danielson
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Don Yesso
Ralph Buoncristiani
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James Lally
Joe Spector

Reviews

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CinemaSerf
6 | 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.