Guarding Tess
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Guarding Tess is a 1994 movie starring Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage. MacLaine plays ex-First Lady Tess Carlisle who has a difficult character as she is protected by her entourage of Secret Service body guards lead by a reluctant Doug Chesnic (Cage). Chesnic and her entire staff really dislike her whims and demands and Chesnic desperately wants a transfer to another function which Carlisle repeatedly blocks. This dislike changes however when Carlisle gets kidnapped and Chesnic and his team go to the limit to save her.
The movie was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1995 (Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical: Shirley MacLaine)
Cast overview
first billed only:- Nicolas Cage .... Doug Chesnic
- Shirley MacLaine .... Tess Carlisle
- Austin Pendleton .... Earl Fowler
- Edward Albert .... Barry Carlisle
- James Rebhorn .... Howard Schaeffer
- 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 J. Lennix .... Kenny Young
- Susan Blommaert .... Kimberly Cannon
- Dale Dye .... Charles Ivy
- James Handy .... Neal Carlo
External links
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109951/
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