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Name: Guarding Tess
Released: 1994-3-11
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Shirley MacLaine, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn

Guarding Tess

PG-13
1h 36m
1994

57%

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What do you do with a former First Lady who's unpredictable, ornery and impossible to please? Anything she wants! Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage star in this comic, compassionate look at life after the White House for two former Washington insiders: First Lady Tess Carlisle and Secret Service agent Doug Chesnic.

Director:

Hugh Wilson

Producer:

Ned Tanen

Writer:

Hugh Wilson, Peter Torokvei

Cast:

Nicolas Cage, Shirley MacLaine, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn, Richard Griffiths

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

57%

Reviews

MovieFreak.com

Sara Michelle Fetters

There is an empathetic grace to Guarding Tess that’s timeless.

...an erratic yet rewarding star vehicle.

Maclaine's performance as Tess Carlisle, which shifts from polite witchiness to lonely, mildly boozy poignancy, adds up to the only real reason to see this potentially funny and revealing, but actually rather humdrum duodrama.

June 6, 2018

FULL REVIEW

Independent on Sunday

Quentin Curtis

Too often Guarding Tess feels like a sketch towards a movie.