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Guarding Tess
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #7704 in DVD
- Released on: 1998-04-15
- Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
- Original language: English, French
- Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
- Dubbed in: Spanish
- Number of discs: 1
- Running time: 95 minutes
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Nicolas Cage stars in this drama-comedy about a Secret Service agent unable to get out of his assignment watching over an exasperating former first lady (Shirley MacLaine). The two get along like oil and water, but when MacLaine's bored widow ends up kidnapped, Cage's agent becomes a determined avenger. While the pairing of these two actors in a movie isn't something most audiences would ever have considered, that's what makes it so much fun. Cage and MacLaine are brilliantly focused in their respective parts, and filmmaker Hugh Wilson brings an unusually solid and urgent feeling to a story that might have become a dismissible light comedy in another director's hands. --Tom Keogh
From The New Yorker
Nicolas Cage plays Doug Chesnic, a Secret Service agent assigned to protect a widowed former First Lady named Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine). Hugh Wilson's movie is clearly meant to be one of those heartwarming comedies about mismatched people who, after driving each other crazy for ninety minutes, discover love and mutual respect just in time for the final fadeout. It's a dull, poky picture, which provides an unwelcome showcase for MacLaine's increasingly insufferable cute-gorgon shtick and no showcase at all for Cage's tremendous comic talents. Playing an upright, conscientious character straitjackets him, and it's not much fun to watch dutiful Doug being humiliated by willful Tess in scene after scene. Far from warming the heart, this grisly spectacle makes the blood run cold. Also with Austin Pendleton, James Rebhorn, and Richard Griffiths. Screenplay by Wilson and Peter Torokvei. -Terrence Rafferty
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
Customer Reviews
Yes, Ma'am! 
That's the answer everyone gives Tess Carlisle (MacLaine) if they know what's good for them.
SAIC (that's Special Agent in Charge) Doug Chesnic wants to leave Tess' detail. He's been there three years and he wants to go back to Washington where the action is. Well, and besides, Tess Carlisle is driving him nuts.
He gets as far as the Director of the Secret Service's inner office only to be told that Mrs. Carlisle called the President and wants him back. What choice has he, but to go.
Doug thinks he's going to be tough on her, but the battle of wills between the two of them has none other than the President mediating when Tess can't win herself.
The film's a battle royale between two very strong-willed characters, but in the end when the chips are down, these two people take care of each other.
"Guarding Tess" is one of those surprise films that ends so well the bickering at the front's almost erased. It's just a good watch occasionally when you need to take some stress off.
Great!
Shirley McLaine is really convincing in this role as a rather difficult aging public figure, the widow of the deceased VP. Her co-star was a good match as well. I loved the movie.
Great Movie!
Maclaine plays a former First Lady who is a real piece of work, Cage is a Secret service man, the storie is funny and touching at the same time, I think is one of their best movies.
