Nicolas Cage stars in this drama-comedy about a Secret Service agent unable to get out of his assignment watching over an exasperating former first lady (Shirley MacLaine). The two get along like oil and water; but when MacLaine's bored widow ends up kidnapped; Cage's agent becomes a determined avenger. While the pairing of these two actors in a movie isn't something most audiences would ever have considered; that's what makes it so much fun. Cage and MacLaine are brilliantly focused in their respective parts; and filmmaker Hugh Wilson brings an unusually solid and urgent feeling to a story that might have become a dismissible light comedy in another director's hands. --Tom Keogh