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Rating: 5.994/10 by 320 users

Guarding Tess (1994)

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.

Directing:
  • Hugh Wilson
Writing:
  • Hugh Wilson
  • PJ Torokvei
Stars:
Release Date: Fri, Mar 11, 1994

Rating: 5.994/10 by 320 users

Alternative Title:
Tess y su guardaespaldas - ES
Livvagt for Tess - DK
O Agente Secreto - PT
El guardaespaldas y la primera dama - MX

Country:
United States of America
Language:
ქართული
English
Runtime: 01 hour 36 minutes
Budget: $20,000,000
Revenue: $27,058,304

Plot Keyword: bodyguard, celebrity, national security agency (nsa), security guard
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Shirley MacLaine
Tess Carlisle
Nicolas Cage
Doug Chesnic
Edward Albert
Barry Carlisle
James Rebhorn
Howard Shaeffer
David Graf
Lee Danielson
Don Yesso
Ralph Buoncristiani
James Lally
Joe Spector
Brant von Hoffman
Bob Hutcherson
Harry Lennix
Kenny Young
Susan Blommaert
Kimberly Cannon
Dale Dye
Charles Ivy
James Handy
Neal Carlo
Mark Conway
Caleb Harrison
David L. King
Derrick Hastings
Jane Beard
Kidnapper
Beverly Brigham
Autograph Seeker
Brian Deenihan
Plainclothes Guard
Julie Kurzava
Opera Singer
Michael Consoli
Opera Singer
Hugh Wilson
The President (voice)
Gerald F. Gough
Store Manager
George Gomes
James Carlisle
Bob Child
Shaeffer's Assistant
Diana Sowle
Hairdresser
Maggie Linton
Carlo's Secretary
Jim Hild
Helicopter Doctor
Will Bellais
Major Domo
Matilde Valera
Yvonne Hernandez
Al Cerullo
Helicopter Pilot
Michael Ahl
Businessman (uncredited)
Dave Droge
S.W.A.T. Commando (uncredited)
James A. Howard
Store Customer (uncredited)
Mark Norris
FBI Agent (uncredited)
Mike Rademaekers
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Carolyn Rawleigh
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Noble Willingham
Sheriff Janson (uncredited)

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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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