Film

Guarding Tess

1994 · 1h 36m · Comedy · Drama

A comedy beyond the call of duty.

IMDb

6.2

Rotten Tomatoes

59%

Metacritic

50

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.

Shirley MacLaine

Tess Carlisle

Nicolas Cage

Doug Chesnic

Austin Pendleton

Earl

Edward Albert

Barry Carlisle

James Rebhorn

Howard Shaeffer

Richard Griffiths

Frederick

John Roselius

Tom Bahlor

David Graf

Lee Danielson

Don Yesso

Ralph Buoncristiani

James Lally

Joe Spector

Brant von Hoffman

Bob Hutcherson

Harry Lennix

Kenny Young

Susan Blommaert

Kimberly Cannon

Dale Dye

Charles Ivy

James Handy

Neal Carlo

Stephen S. Chen

Jimmy

• Hugh WilsonScreenplay · Director
• PJ TorokveiScreenplay
• Nancy Graham TanenProducer
• Ned TanenProducer
• Brian J. ReynoldsDirector of Photography
• Michael ConvertinoOriginal Music Composer
• Sidney LevinEditor
• Aleta ChappelleCasting

Trailer Guarding Tess

Release date

March 11, 1994

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

PG-13

Budget

$20,000,000

Revenue

$27,058,304

Genres

Comedy, Drama

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