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Guarding Tess

Name: Guarding Tess
Director: Hugh Wilson
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1994-03-11
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn

1994 · 1h 36m · Comedy, Drama

IMDb 6.2 Metacritic 50 RT 59%

Skip it. 'Guarding Tess' is a forgettable buddy-comedy-drama that can't decide what it wants to be, and the mediocre scores across the board confirm it never quite lands either tone. Unless you're a die-hard Nicolas Cage completist with nothing better to do, save your evening for something with more spark.

Plot

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.

Director: Hugh Wilson

Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn

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