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.
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Classical in form, contemporary, effortless and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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“Is Shirley MacLaine the best thing in Guarding Tess?”
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Cast
- Shirley MacLaineTess Carlisle
- Nicolas CageDoug Chesnic
- Austin PendletonEarl
- Edward AlbertBarry Carlisle
- James RebhornHoward Shaeffer
- Richard GriffithsFrederick
- John RoseliusTom Bahlor
- David GrafLee Danielson
- Don YessoRalph Buoncristiani
- James LallyJoe Spector
Crew
- Hugh WilsonDirector
- Hugh WilsonScreenplay
- PJ TorokveiScreenplay
- Brian J. ReynoldsDirector of Photography
- Michael ConvertinoOriginal Music Composer
- Sidney LevinEditor
- Nancy Graham TanenProducer
- Ned TanenProducer
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