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.

Shirley MacLaine
as Tess Carlisle

Nicolas Cage
as Doug Chesnic

Austin Pendleton
as Earl

Edward Albert
as Barry Carlisle

James Rebhorn
as Howard Shaeffer

Richard Griffiths
as Frederick

John Roselius
as Tom Bahlor

David Graf
as Lee Danielson

Don Yesso
as Ralph Buoncristiani

James Lally
as Joe Spector
CinemaSerf
Shirley MacLaine ("Tess") is on good form in this rather daft tale of a pretty cantankerous former First Lady who has a running battle with her Secret Service agent Nicolas Cage ("Doug") as he tries to keep her within his security protocols - an exasperating task that is mostly an uphill struggle. A...