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Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Guarding Tess |
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Doug Chesnic (Cage) is a Secret Service agent who has completed his assignment to protect the widow of the former U.S. President, Tess Carlisle (MacLaine). He's looking forward to a new job, but the demanding and sarcastic former First Lady requests he be given a permanent detail to handle her security because "she likes him." So he is given no choice but to accompany her back to her farmhouse in rural Ohio, where she makes life hell for him and the rest of the staff with her capricious and stubborn ways. Doug's skills come into play, however, when her driver, his sister, and the sister's husband kidnap Tess for a ransom of $15 million. This is a reasonably pleasant 1994 film that never really establishes an identity or mission, though some of the byplay between the two protagonists is diverting.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Guarding Tess |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- bodyguard
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- govt employee
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- gang
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
- Midwest
City?
Yes
City:
- Washington D.C.
Small town?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
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