Presidential widow Shirley MacLaine may be a national treasure according to the
current president in Guarding Tess. But to those like Nicholas Cage charged with
her safety she is one imperious pain in the butt. She runs Cage and the rest of
her Secret Service team ragged with some rather stupid stunts.
Cage was looking forward to a promotion out of her detail, but she requests that he stay. Not that she gives up her demanding ways in fact she increases them. Probably thinks a new team won't put up with it.
As we learn more about both MacLaine and Cage in the course of the film we get some idea of what turned her into such a pill. In the end Cage's own personal knowledge of MacLaine resolves a really big crisis and saves his own job.
MacLaine and Cage play beautifully off each other in Guarding Tess. It works so well because of her neglect by her own son Edward Albert. We see him with MacLaine trying to get her in on one of his business schemes. The look she gives when she says no is unforgettable. Cage is more like what she would have liked to have raised.
I'm thinking this portrayal is based on Bess Truman in her widowhood years who was reported to get cantankerous with age. She lived to be 97 our oldest first lady.
Anyway good story with some really fine acting to put it over.
Cage was looking forward to a promotion out of her detail, but she requests that he stay. Not that she gives up her demanding ways in fact she increases them. Probably thinks a new team won't put up with it.
As we learn more about both MacLaine and Cage in the course of the film we get some idea of what turned her into such a pill. In the end Cage's own personal knowledge of MacLaine resolves a really big crisis and saves his own job.
MacLaine and Cage play beautifully off each other in Guarding Tess. It works so well because of her neglect by her own son Edward Albert. We see him with MacLaine trying to get her in on one of his business schemes. The look she gives when she says no is unforgettable. Cage is more like what she would have liked to have raised.
I'm thinking this portrayal is based on Bess Truman in her widowhood years who was reported to get cantankerous with age. She lived to be 97 our oldest first lady.
Anyway good story with some really fine acting to put it over.