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  • Starring: Nicolas Cage, Shirley MacLaine
  • Summary: Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage star in this comic, compassionate look at life after the White House for two former Washington insiders: First Lady Tess Carlisle and Secret Service agent Doug Chesnic. (Sony Pictures)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 14
  3. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    MacLaine and Cage are really very good here.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Richard Harrington
    60
    All of the supporting characters -- notably tubby Richard Griffiths as Tess's nurse and mousy Austin Pendleton as her chauffeur -- are thinly drawn, but neither MacLaine nor Cage leaves much room for anyone to overact.
  3. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Terrence Rafferty
    10
    It's a dull, poky picture, which provides an unwelcome showcase for MacLaine's increasingly insufferable cute-gorgon shtick and no showcase at all for Cage's tremendous comic talents.

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  1. StephenN
    8
    This movie is just nice and comfortable. Put it in the dvd, make some popcorn and you will be entertained and even modestly uplifted. Yes, a little overacted but well done overacting. Formulaic to some extent but again everyone does their acting jobs so well you won't mind. No one is truly unbelievable. Something had to happen at the end and so maybe that is a little far fetched but maybe not. Movies are fantasy and entertainment.… Expand
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