Guarding Tess Page #2

Synopsis: Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle, widow of a former U.S. President, and close personal friend of the President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed. He wants off her detail. She is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands. Doug returns with no idea of how to continue dealing with her.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Hugh Wilson
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
46
Rotten Tomatoes:
58%
PG-13
Year:
1994
96 min
262 Views


As you can see,

I'm extremely busy.

Yes, ma'am.

I expect him any minute.

I'll tell him as soon as he comes in.

All right.

Goodbye.

- She wants to see you.

- Oh, come on. I was just up there!

She called the president to demand I

pull another tour. How about that sh*t?

- Why?

- Because she likes me.

- Oh, you don't think that's the reason?

- I don't know. Who knows with her?

- She didn't say she likes me, did she?

- It has nothing to do with like.

She doesn't want a new guy

comin' in here, shakin' things up...

tryin ' to get things running right.

She's got me broken in.

She'll never let me go.

Now my master calls again.

- Doug, come here. Check this out.

- Helen Grace. Helen?

Yes, Peter. In the city of Agua Dulce,

automatic weapon fire broke out...

shortly after 2:
30 local time.

The president was taken from the scene.

Secret Service plainclothesmen...

You see those Special Tactics guys?

They're everywhere.

The crowd had only seconds ago applauded

the American leader repeatedly.

- The men with the guns and rifles.

- Yes, Mrs. Carlisle?

- Are they U.S. Secret Service agents?

- Doug, she says it's urgent.

Tell her I'II be there

in 15 minutes.

He says he'll be there in 15 minutes.

Mrs. Carlisle?

Go up.

What does she want? Chocolate?

Some kind of goddamn fruit drink?

Do we look like a bunch of waiters?

We wanna be down there!

...some sort of charity work.

I have no idea...

...some sort of charity work.

I have no idea...

I got it!

- I'm coming!

- I can't do three more years of this.

I told you never to bring a gun

in this room. Now get it out.

Yes, ma'am.

How dare you

bring a gun in here?

- Sorry, Mrs. Carlisle.

- That's all right.

- That emergency alarm is to be used...

- It belongs to me.

I'll use it

anytime I want.

I think it bothers the neighbors.

Sorry.

What is it?

I want to play golf.

What?

Golf. It's a game.

My husband and I used to play it.

- Do you remember that?

- Mrs. Carlisle, it's 38 degrees.

Thank you, Tom. Could you have

the car ready in half in hour?

- Yes. Ma'am.

- Thank you.

Now go on. Shoo.

Go on.

Kimberly?

Kimberly!

Would you mind

not standing there?

No, not there. Go over there

where I can see where you are.

- Didn't you guard Ford or Agnew?

- No, ma'am.

All they ever did was play golf,

which was a blessing for the country.

Yes, ma'am.

No, I was too young.

- What?

- Too young to serve Ford or Agnew.

Get back in the cart.

Get in the cart!

Yes, ma'am.

What is this all about?

She sits up in her room for five years,

and now we've got golf.

And opera.

- What's next?

Why are you making noise?

We're trying to putt.

Sorry.

Why don 't you make yourselves useful?

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Hugh Wilson

Hugh Hamilton Wilson (born August 21, 1943) is an American movie director, writer and TV showrunner. He is best known as the creator of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati and Frank's Place, and as the director of the popular movie comedies Police Academy and The First Wives Club. more…

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