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Guarding Tess
1994
· Movie
· 96 min
D
MEANRANK
57/100
Every rating
48–62
out of 100
Everyone agrees
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 48, highest is IMDb on 62.
See the most agreed on films →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.
Details
- Director
- Hugh Wilson
- Writers
- Hugh Wilson, PJ Torokvei
- Studio
- Channel Films, TriStar Pictures
- Released
- 11 March 1994
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $20.0M
- Box office
- $27.1M
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