Kelly Williams

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).

What do you do with a former First Lady who's unpredictable, ornery and impossible to please? Anything she wants! Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage star in this comic, compassionate look at life after the White House for two former Washington insiders: First Lady Tess Carlisle and Secret Service agent Doug Chesnic. As uproarious as it is uplifting, GUARDING TESS is "a grand mixture of laughter and tears." - Gary Franklin, KCOP-TV

A former First Lady of the US wants a particular Secret Service agent to head her bodyguard detail, even though he can't stand her.