Rotten
The film is indeed likable. But director Hugh Wilson, who co-wrote the script with Peter Torokvei, just skims the surface of potentially rich territory.
Leonard Klady, Variety
Guarding Tess
A comedy beyond the call of duty.
1994 · 1h 36m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Hugh Wilson
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Hugh Wilson Director
- Nicolas Cage as Doug Chesnic
- Shirley MacLaine as Tess Carlisle
- Austin Pendleton as Earl Fowler
- Edward Albert as Barry Carlisle
- James Rebhorn as Howard Schaeffer
- Richard Griffiths as Frederick
- John Roselius as Tom Bahlor
- David Graf as Lee Danielson
- Don Yesso as Ralph Buoncristiani
- Brant von Hoffman as Bob Hutcherson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
57%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Cage is on best behaviour here, but he's not an especially sympathetic performer.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh
Mr. Cage, once again sounding mock-suave and Elvisy, makes the most of his character's fragile cool.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
Like the role itself, Cage is clearly in service here to a fabled but fading star, and he seldom slips on that second banana.
Richard Harrington, Washington Post
Fresh
What counts is the comic tension between MacLaine and Cage. It's so well done, it doesn't matter how dumb things get.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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