- Film Review
- Reviewed By Tom Hutchinson
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3 out of 5
In this comedy drama, Shirley MacLaine does almost too good a job of playing cantankerous president's widow Tess Carlisle - a former First Lady from hell. MacLaine is so believable in the leading role it's almost too uncomfortable to watch, while Nicolas Cage, as long-suffering Secret Service minder Doug Chesnic, displays a sure comic touch. It's attractively staged by Police Academy director Hugh Wilson and remains entertaining until it finally lurches into melodrama.
Plot Summary
Comedy drama starring Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage. Believing he is finally free of a difficult assignment that has occupied him for the last three years, Secret Service agent Doug Chesnic is dismayed to learn that he has been reassigned to the same case, guarding the cantankerous ex-First Lady, Tess Carlisle.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Tess Carlisle
- Shirley MacLaine
- Doug Chesnic
- Nicolas Cage
- Earl
- Austin Pendleton
- Barry Carlisle
- Edward Albert
- Howard Shaeffer
- James Rebhorn
- Frederick
- Richard Griffiths
- Tom Bahlor
- John Roselius
- Lee Danielson
- David Graf
- Ralph Buoncristiani
- Don Yesso
- Joe Spector
- James Lally
Crew
- Director
- Hugh Wilson
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