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Guarding Tess is a 1994 film starring Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage. MacLaine plays the part of fictional former First Lady Tess Carlisle, who has a difficult personality. She is protected by an entourage of Secret Service bodyguards led by a reluctant Doug Chesnic (Cage). Tess' entire staff dislikes her whims and demands, and Chesnic desperately wants a transfer to another assignment, which Carlisle repeatedly blocks. This dislike is transformed however when Carlisle is kidnapped, and Chesnic and his team try their best to save her.