Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—the widow of a former U.S. President, and a close personal friend of the current President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed, and—after returning—wants off her detail as she is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands.
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I saw the character of whom the mother of someone who I call mother in the upper half of this movie and after she's got rescued. %I saw the character of whom the mother of someone who I call mother in the upper half of this movie and after she's got rescued. I saw the character of whom the mother of someone who I call mother in the upper half of this movie and after she's got rescued. I saw the character of whom the mother of someone who I call mother in the upper half of this movie and after she's got rescued.%
When I like a movie I give temple a 10 or less depending. This one I enjoy it from the beginning. I laughed and the end was a surprise. Very well done . Both Nicolas and Shirley are marvelous. I do not like when people look for errors in the film, can you see they are fictional all of them. Who care if the signs are not written with the word Ohio. The film was filmed in Maryland.
Secret service agent Doug Chesnic (Nicolas Cage) is tired of guarding widower former First Lady Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine). She makes him essentially a domestic servant. After his three years stint, he is happy to move on from what he considers the worst assignment in the service, but she uses her influence on the current President to keep him on her detail. Earl Fowler (Austin Pendleton) is the driver and Frederick (Richard Griffiths) is her nurse.Shirley MacLaine's dragonlady is not fun, or funny, or even likable. Nicolas Cage isn't that likable either. He's all bitter. I can see the concept but the execution is problematic because I don't like these characters. It's necessary for a comedy to either like the characters or like to laugh at the characters. I feel for Cage suffocating under her but not enough to like him either. The second half does work better as a thriller although it's hard to get invested after not liking the first half.
A very run-of-the-mill picture but not without charm. An odd-couple movie with the concept twist of high office this film sits somewhere in the orbit of Driving Miss Daisy and The Bodyguard. Nicholas Cage's Doug Chesnic is aghast to discover that his stint of personal duty towards the former first Lady is being extended indefinitely. Shirley Maclaine can see that this is a thin idea and really works the slow-burn heart of the film only softening her stubborn, lonely widower by increments. There is no attempt made to really work the issue of duty vs individual need - of statutory vs sentimental guardianship - but the film makes its point elegantly enough. 4/10
