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08/26/02
Guarding Tess (1994)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:17
Rotten:13
Average Rating:5.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Tess Carlisle is the widow of a former United States President. A quarrelsome older woman, she's known for her belligerent manner and her blatant disregard for protocol. For Doug Chesnic, the... [More]
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Nicolas Cage, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert
Director: Hugh Wilson
Reviews for Guarding Tess
I was on set the day they filmed the opera scene.
08/15/02
Comedically challenged piffle. This one hardly even seems to be trying.
07/26/02
Enough cannot be said about Cage and MacLaine's performances and their obvious chemistry together -- and it's fair to say that they more than make up for the film's lapses.
01/01/00
What counts is the comic tension between MacLaine and Cage. It's so well done, it doesn't matter how dumb things get.
01/01/00
There are lots of laughs in this picture, and though at one point he teeters perilously on the brink of mush and gush, Wilson manages to regain his gently caustic comic footing.
01/01/00
There are a few good jokes, some solid chemistry between the leads, and a little pathos, but it all doesn't add up to very much.
01/01/00
Like the role itself, Cage is clearly in service here to a fabled but fading star, and he seldom slips on that second banana.
01/01/00
MacLaine and Cage are really very good here.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's just two pleasant, well-acted characters with nothing to do.
01/01/00
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