David L. King

Guarding Tess -- Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage star in this cantankerous comedy about a former First Lady and her reluctant bodyguard.

Shirley MacClaine plays Tess Carlisle, a cantankerous, much beloved former First Lady whose husband died in office nearly a decade ago. Now, far removed from Washington, she directs her extraordinary intelligence to a battle of wills with her bodyguard, Secret Service Agent Doug Chesnic (Nicolas Cage).

An ambitious Secret Service agent, longing to be assigned to the White House, finds himself frustrated when a feisty former first lady personally requests he be kept on at her Ohio home.

An ambitious Secret Service agent, longing to be assigned to the White House, finds himself frustrated when a feisty former first lady personally requests he be kept on at her Ohio home.