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Guarding Tess
Very mild comedy-drama (first one, then the other) about a former First Lady and current Prima Donna -- capricious, temperamental, a handful -- and the by-the-book Secret Serviceman assigned to bodyguard her. Nicolas Cage's natural oddness is somewhat straitjacketed in the part -- Nicolas Caged, you might say -- and the humor in general (what there is of it) is muffled by a milky white film over the film. A serious turn near the end is a total surrender. With Shirley MacLaine, Austin Pendleton, Richard Griffiths, James Rebhorn; directed by Hugh Wilson. 1994.
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MPAA Rating: PG-13
