A former U.S. First Lady wants a particular Secret Service agent to head her bodyguard detail, even though he can't stand her.
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Hugh Wilson
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Shirley MacLaine | ... | Tess Carlisle | |
| Nicolas Cage | ... | Doug Chesnic | |
| Austin Pendleton | ... | Earl Fowler | |
| Edward Albert | ... | Barry Carlisle | |
| James Rebhorn | ... | Howard Schaeffer | |
| Richard Griffiths | ... | Frederick | |
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John Roselius | ... | Tom Bahlor |
| David Graf | ... | Lee Danielson | |
| Don Yesso | ... | Ralph Buoncristiani | |
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James Lally | ... | Joe Spector |
| Brant von Hoffman | ... | Bob Hutcherson (as Brant Von Hoffman) | |
| Harry Lennix | ... | Kenny Young (as Harry J. Lennix) | |
| Susan Blommaert | ... | Kimberly Cannon | |
| Dale Dye | ... | Charles Ivy | |
| James Handy | ... | Neal Carlo | |
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Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle, widow of a former U.S. President, and close personal friend of the President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed. He wants off her detail. She is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands. Doug returns with no idea of how to continue dealing with her. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
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secret service | bodyguard | u.s. president | widow | reference to spiro agnew |Taglines:
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Country:
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11 March 1994 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$20,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$27,053,498Company Credits
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from "Die Entführung aus dem Serail"
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Wiener Symphoniker and Bruno Weil, Güther Missenhardt, Elzbieta Szmytka
Courtesy of Sony Classical
By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
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The scenes from the nominating convention for President Carlisle is snippets from the Republican Convention in 1984. You can briefly see a "Reagan-Bush" sign. See more »Goofs
The "Ohio" state route signs in the movie are wrong, as the real ones have the outline of the state. The signs are Maryland signs (where the movie was filmed) with the word "Ohio" covering the word "Maryland". See more »Quotes
Doug Chesnic: Don't you see? If he is involved, then her life is worthless, you understand? They had to fucking kill her!See more »
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Ich Gehe, Doch Rate Ich Dirfrom "Die Entführung aus dem Serail"
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Wiener Symphoniker and Bruno Weil, Güther Missenhardt, Elzbieta Szmytka
Courtesy of Sony Classical
By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
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This should not be a spoiler except in terms of flavor; this fine film brings me back to "Driving Miss Daisy." A reluctant secret service agent (Cage) is forced to renew his term for "guarding" a moody, very bright, usually difficult former first lady. From an infinite number of quickly subdued facial expressions, inhalations, and rare comments, we see that Tess (the former first lady) is a complicated character, built of far more complex material than that which has created simply a tiresome, demanding and spoiled lady finding herself in old age without having prepared for the life she has now.
Rather quickly, we see her aloneness in the world. Less quickly, Cage too sees it and exhibits an understanding that far transcends the many funny moments in this serious work.
See it. If you understand how close to the soul its scratches are, your eyes won't be dry at the end.