Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37655 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-01-14
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
• Dubbed in: French, German, Italian, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 91 minutes

Amazon.com
Nicolas Cage stars in this drama-comedy about a Secret Service agent unable to get out of his assignment watching over an exasperating former first lady (Shirley MacLaine). The two get along like oil and water, but when MacLaine's bored widow ends up kidnapped, Cage's agent becomes a determined avenger. While the pairing of these two actors in a movie isn't something most audiences would ever have considered, that's what makes it so much fun. Cage and MacLaine are brilliantly focused in their respective parts, and film-maker Hugh Wilson brings an unusually solid and urgent feeling to a story that might have become a dismissible light comedy in another director's hands. --Tom Keogh

DVD Description
DVD Special Features:

Theatrical Trailer
Languages in Dolby Digital 5.1: English
Languages in Dolby Surround: French, German, Italian, Spanish
Subtitles: English, French, German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Hindi, Turkish, Danish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian
Anamorphic 1:1.85
Letterbox Widescreen format, enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs

Synopsis
Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine) 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 (Nicolas Cage), the Secret Service agent assigned to the widow, standing watch over the cantankerous old lady is more than he can tolerate. After three long years as her bodyguard, Doug finally gets a new assignment. But before he's had the chance to celebrate, Tess has him brought back to her Ohio home for yet another go at being her bodyguard. Tess and Doug may be like oil and water together, but they'll soon realize that they've needed each other all along.

Customer Reviews

Nic at his best
By far one of the best films that Cage has turned out. A year before his oscar winning film 'Leaving Las Vegas' Cage appears to be so at ease you wouldnt be surprised if he canned this one yesterday. Fun, witty, fast paced and at times deeply moving. All the acting is sharp, even that from the director who plays the slighty erractic phone president (you never see him, but is posibly one of the funniest characters in the film). All the fun culminates to a exeptionally emotive finalle which will give you 'that warm feeling'.

A Good Movie
This is the first time that I thought a movie was not worth seeing and waited until now. This time I will admit I made a mistake. This movie was fun to watch. It is well written and the interactions of the two main actors show a great chemistry.

Nicolas Cage plays the Special Agent in Charge of the Secret Service detail guarding a former First Lady. The First Lady is played well my Shirley MacLaine. The agent feels he is wasted in such a detail and wants desperately to get back on detail to the White House...and the First Lady wants him to stay. The two seem to thrive on confrontation with each other. She does her best to break every procedure the Secret Service is supposed to follow.

If you pay attention in the movie you will see why the First Lady actually loves the agent so much and wants him with her. And I think the picture shows us a very accurate relationship that occurs between agent and his protectee. Though it could be seen as a comedy; there is a just enough drama and a mystery which Cage character solves. A very well directed with perfect pace and timing.

neil hunt
Guarding Tess a must film to see for any Nicolas Cage fan. Nicolas Cage is at his best,playing a secret service agent who has to guard an ex presidents wife that he dos'nt want to. Shirley Maclaine plays the ex presidents wife who always wants things done her way.It's abit like the odd couple at times.I liked the way she went off on her own just to spite him and how he alway got introuble with president when he stopped her from doing her own thing.It was good to see them get on in the end after the kidnaping and how they became close. I have seen this film over and over again and still find something new to see in it.