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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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Directed by Hugh Wilson
Shirley MacLaineTess Carlisle
Nicolas CageDoug Chesnic
Austin PendletonEarl
Edward AlbertBarry Carlisle
James RebhornHoward Shaeffer
Richard GriffithsFrederick
John RoseliusTom Bahlor
David GrafLee Danielson
Don YessoRalph BuoncristianiJames LallyJoe Spector
Brant von HoffmanBob Hutcherson
Harry LennixKenny YoungVideos
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CinemaSerfAug 26, 2023
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 hers… Read more
elf 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.