Guarding Tess

1994-03-11 • 1h 36m • PG-13 •

Comedy Drama

6.0

User Score

333 votes

"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.

Hugh Wilson

Director

PJ Torokvei

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Shirley MacLaine

Tess Carlisle

Nicolas Cage

Doug Chesnic

Austin Pendleton

Earl

Edward Albert

Barry Carlisle

James Rebhorn

Howard Shaeffer

Richard Griffiths

Frederick

Movie Details

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$20,000,000

Revenue

$27,058,304

Runtime

1h 36m

Release Date

1994-03-11

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

2023-08-26T15:28:34.126Z

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.