Film199496 min

Guarding Tess

Name: Guarding Tess
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1994
Duration: 96 min
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Shirley MacLaine, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn

Taste attributes: comedydramaimaginarysimpleglossyenclosedcomplex relationship

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"A comedy beyond the call of duty."

Boxlist takeA heightened comedy, balanced on most other counts. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

Quality rating

6.0 /10

TMDB · 220 votes

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What lines up

Pace: Balanced pace, just how this profile likes it
Linearity: Balanced linearity, just how this profile likes it
Setting / scale: Small / confined, just how this profile likes it

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Intricacy: Basic story, where this profile leans smart / intricate
Weightiness: Light / accessible, where this profile leans weighty / heavy

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Synopsis

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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