Guarding Tess (DVD, 1998, Includes Theatrical Trailer; Closed Caption)

Watching both Cage and MacLaine,getting the best of one another was a joy to watch.Then at the end grew a very special bond between both of them. A relationship closer to her then her own son.It was very touching.

This movie keeps you wanting to see more. You will enjoy the actors performances as well as the story.

I LOVE BOTH ACTORS AND HAVE WATCHED IT MANY TIMES SINCE GETTING IT.IT IS ALSO MUCH CHEAPER THAN RENTING A MOVING AND NOT WATCHING IT. WE HAVE ACTUIALLY RENTED A MOVIE 4 TIMES AND SOMETHING CAME UP AND HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET.ALSO IF WE GET TIRED OF IT WE CAN RE-SELL IT.IT WAS HARD TO PICK WITH SO MANY MOVIES SO AS I THOUGHT OF THE MOVIES I WROTE THEM DOWN THEN SEARCHED FOR THEM BY NAME.THIS MOVIE IS TRUELY LIKE LIFE. AS THEY POINTED OUT SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE SHOW.SUCH AS HOW MANY TIMES HAS A PRES. OR HIS WIFE OUT OF OFFICE BEEN A TARGET,IT IS ALSO A FEEL GOOD MOVIE-NOT ALL THE WAY THROUGH BUT THE END LEAVES YOU FEELING VERY GOOD.FOR THE MOST PART THIS MOVIE IS VERY LIFE LIKE AND PERSONAL.ONE GETS AN IDEA OF WHAT LIFE MUST BE FOR THE X-1ST LADY AND HER SECRET SERVICE TEAM.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

This movie is really awesome. It's about a former first lady who is difficult to deal with. Her secret service guards have an awful time trying to do their jobs. Nicholas Cage is with her when she gets kidnapped. He also figures out
who did it & finds her before it's too late. The bond between the two is sealed. This show is really good. Personal relationships and the bond between
two people with very different backrounds really back drops this show. I thought Shirley Maclaine was excellent as the tempermental ex-first lady.
This show was worth the watch & I thoroughly enjoyed this film.

this movie is a very good movie for the whole family i love how it plays out i would recommend this movie to all thanks ronnie

The movie itself is a great movie - Shirley McClaine and Nicholas Cage are perfect in their respective parts with a good supporting cast - However, I would like very much to have this movie in the "widescreen format", I do not like to see movies cropped and panned/scanned. I will continue to look for this movie in the widescreen format -

Again - Great movie - Bad format (full screen).

Louis Spadaro/Alabama.

I had seen this movie several times but never from beginning to end. I loved the story and the on screen chemistry between the two leads. Since obtaining the DVD from E-Bay, I can now say I have seen it from beginning to end and still love it.

I loved this movie and I was delighted to buy it for someone who's name I picked as a Secret Santa. It's her favorite movie so I got it for her and she's delighted with it.

Like it alot Nicholas Cage pulled it of Nicely. Guarding Tess was a great Starter and Helped Lauch his Carrer as an Outstanding Actor . T.King

This is a great movie. Shirley McClain is such a good actress and does comedy well. This is an unusual Nick Cage film (like Moonstruck). I bought it because when my mother played her copy for me I had to own it also. There wasn't anything I didn't like about this movie

I have loved this movie every since the first time I seen it and now I have it thanks to ebay and great sellers.The movie touches you in so many ways and gives you many lessons to learn from it also.I recommend it to people that like action,heart, and all around good movies.

Product Details:
Actors: Edward Albert, Susan Blommaert, Nicolas Cage, Stephen S. Chen, Mark Conway
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Region: Region 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Release Date: April 15, 1998
Run Time: 96 minutes
ASIN: 076780676X

Product Description:
A warm funny look at life outside the white house about a cantankerous former first lady and the unwilling secret service agent assigned to her detail. Tempers and humor run high as these adversaries go head to head and discover a surprising friendship. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/27/2005 Starring: Shirley Maclaine Nicolas Cage Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Hugh Wilson


Doug Chesnick, played by Nicolas Cage, is the secret service agent assigned to protect President Carlisle's widow Tess, played by Shirley MacLaine. He chafes at the unimportance of his assignment but he especially would like to get away from her! She's difficult, rude, arbitrary, and won't let them do their jobs effectively. But when his current assignment is over and he gladly returns to Washington, he is told he has to go back. Tess called the president and wants him to stay. It is an almost constant battle of wills between them, with Tess usually winning.

A key scene is of her wheeler-dealer businessman son (Edward Albert)coming to ask her to endorse a high-end golf club/housing development. He simply came there to use her. It is there in her face that she knows this, as she turns him down. Later, she is viewing video of television coverage of her husband's funeral, during which her son appears to be feeling nothing, while Doug's composure breaks. Brief, and covered quickly, but there's no doubt how he felt. Nicolas Cage is certainly a very good actor. We understand that Tess wants Doug close to her because he loved her husband and is the son she wished she had. Also, no one knows that she has an inoperable brain tumor and does not have long to live.

Suffice it to say that her affection for him is justified when she is kidnapped. To Doug's great professional humiliation, top agents descend from Washington and take control; but Doug, unlike anyone else in the agency, realizes almost at once who is responsible and stops at nothing to extract the information he needs to save Tess's life.

In the hands of two less-edgy actors it would probably be completely forgettable; but it works. Highly recommended.

By A Reader

purchased this dvd to replace my vhs tape of this movie. one of my favorite movies with nicolas cage in it. shirley mcclaine did a great job potraying a crabbie old ladie, and nicolas cage's performance as an unhappy cia agent was wonderful.

Take a feisty ex First Lady who is being guarded somewhat against her will by Secret Service Agents..Cage plys his role perfectly..Tess makes a valid point about how the Government wastes money giving protection to ex White House Occupants..What other job do you know where the employee is replaced by another employee and is still paid and given work perks despite no longer being employed at that job..does our Gov. know how to waste/spend money or what?? Maclaine plays Tess a ex First Lady left widowed by her at one time President hubby..Cage plays her no nonsense Guard who craves action and danger instead what he gets is a crotchety bored ex first Lady who just wants some alone time..the bond between these two characters exists even though they themselves can't see or feel it we viewers get a huge look at this loving Mother/Son bond that exists even though they are not bound by blood they are bound by something much stronger..Guarding Tess is a fun mix of comedy, action, twists and turns only Shirley Maclaine and Nicholas Cage can and do deliver..I give this film 5 out of 5 bars!!

I simply love this movie. It is in exellent shape as described by the seller. Will buy from this seller again. Have added to my favorites.

Excellent Movie, saw it in movie theater! Great cast! Fast S/H! Great communications! Will do biz again! A+A+A+A+A

Both Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage shine in this movie. It is a battle between a widowed, former first lady of the United States, Tess Carlisle (MacLaine), and her Secret Service guard Douglas Chesnic (Cage).

The movie starts with laughs galore as Chesnic tries to get out of his job as Tess' guard. He is called to Washington for another assignment and then gets the news that Mrs. Carlisle has requested of the President that he be returned to her home in Summersville, Ohio. And the President, whom we never see, has succeeded Tess's husband in the White House and is very concerned about granting her wishes. Sadly, Chesnic returns, and the battle between the two begins.

He snips the rose on her breakfast tray, and she refuses to sit on the right side of the limousine. He insists on following the rules to the ultimate, and she wants to play golf in the freezing cold. He wakes her up at the opera balcony seat to keep her from falling, and she gets her limousine driver to speed away when Chesnic is distracted.

All of this ends when Tess's son Barry (Edward Albert) arrives and tries to bilk his mother out of some money to be used on a real estate project. Tess is so put out with her conniving son that she watches her husband's funeral on video and gets very sentimental. The only confidante around is Chesnic, whom she forces to open up too.

From then on the two become good friends. And then the worst thing happens. Tess is really kidnapped.

In a fold out addition to the DVD we learn that MacLaine patterned her character after Bess Truman, who lived years beyond her husband. But there are also influences of Jackie Kennedy (pillbox hats), Rosalyn Carter (intelligence), Nancy Reagan (sense of style and manipulation abilities), and Hillary Clinton (equality and co-presidency idea), and finally Barbara Bush (hair and pearls).

This movie will first make you laugh continuously and then finally move you to tears. It is a great ride. And you come away wanting to watch it again on a rainy day.

I paid for this product and never rec. it. I have put in a dispute with pay pal. I had several contact with the seller through email, was told it was shipped out two diffent times then told it was returned. I have only one other time had a issue not rec. the product I bought. It was just one excuse or reason on this one. I told them I was going to dispute this issue.

PLOT: the secret service is still Guarding former first lady TESS (excellent Shirley MacClaine) who goes toes to toes with her head SECRET SERVICE agent /guard Nicholas Gage~

this is a fun movie~ and has some good messages along the way~ Tess is the cherished former first lady~ retired and now a FAR from sedate lady~ who HATES her secret service detail a very bored Nicholas Gage who thinks his enemies forced him in this boring detail~ but Tess pushes every button she can to show who the real "boss" here is~ she is funny feisty and shines~! then suddenly TESS is kidnapped the sudden changes and failure of her Secret Service Agents are at the center of a mystery and evaluate their own "boredom" maybe added to the ability of the kidnapping~ ADD to the comedy is the realization is that the kidnapped Tess just might not make it back alive~and that GAGE really likes and respects her more than he dreamed possible~ Shirley MacClaine is outstanding as the feisty Tess a lady from another era~ Gage is funny and frustrated and the writing is excellent~ I GIVE IT A SOLID 10 OUT OF 10 FOR HUMOR AND A GOOOD PLOT TWIST TOO~

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I absolute love Nicholas Cage in this roll. I have most of his movies and find that this particular one brings out a softness about his character while maintaining his roll as the SAC (agent in charge.) Funny yet sad, you will definately laugh alot of laughs and love Nick throught the whole movie...Shirley McClaine is also great...she too is tough yet soft, she will make you laugh and want to strangle her at the same time for some of her antics........I highly recommend this movie to all.