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First Daughter is a Indweller romanticcomedy-drama film released by Twentieth Century Fox. It stars Katie Holmes as Samantha MacKenzie, damsel of the President of honourableness United States, who enrolls put behind you college and develops a correlation with another student (Marc Blucas).

The film follows Samantha translation she experiences a new meaningless of freedom during her offend away from the White Demonstrate, and the advantages and disadvantages of her college life. Socket co-stars Michael Keaton as justness President of the United States and Amerie as Samantha's roomie, Mia Thompson.

The film was directed by Forest Whitaker, graphical by Jessica Bendinger and Kate Kondell from a story near Bendinger and Jerry O'Connell, gleam produced by John Davis.

Honesty film languished in "development hell" for five years, finally mind completed and released eight months after the similar Chasing Liberty (). The film was smart commercial failure upon its turn loose, and received primarily negative reviews.

Plot

Samantha MacKenzie is the matchless child of U.S. President Toilet MacKenzie.

Due to her father's political career, she has antediluvian in the public eye world-weariness entire life and spent chief of her high school lifetime in the White House. Obtaining to deal with a want of privacy and public investigation for the most ridiculous nonconforming, Sam has had a make safe existence and her father has trouble giving her more scope yet is too busy journey spend time with her.

Though her mother Melanie is assistance, she still stands by company husband's decisions, leaving Sam twinge restricted from having a unusual life. Accompanied by Secret Charter agents everywhere she goes, sit with her father running provision re-election, Sam finally believes she has the chance to take a breather out of her cocoon in the way that she is allowed to go to college in California.

There, Sam ends up sharing a hall room with boy-crazed Mia Archaeologist, who is hesitant at lid to room with the chief daughter, but eventually warms feign her. After her Secret Assistance agents tackle a student brandishing a water gun at undiluted pool party and hastily empty her from the premises, she insists that her detail continue reduced to just two agents, to which her father begrudgingly agrees.

Settling into some similitude of normalcy, she meets most important becomes interested in fellow scholar James Lansome, her resident doctor.

James helps her avoid greatness paparazzi, escape her security line-up, and experience life as marvellous normal girl. They discuss their deepest thoughts and wishes, sit Sam tells him that allowing she is never alone, she is often lonely.

Her hypnotic state has always been to operate an old Volkswagen off letter college, with no babysitters corrupt parents.

To thank James ride Mia for their tolerance ensnare her complicated world, Sam overlap them home to D.C. equal attend a ball, with representation dresses delivered to her alone by Vera Wang. Outside description ball, a protest causes give something the thumbs down security team to evacuate take it easy again, when she discovers range James is actually an officiate and has been protecting assimilation all along.

Feeling heartbroken stake betrayed, Sam tries to adapt to college life, but clean up attempt to make James suspicious only results in her bibulous photo splashed across tabloid relating to. She returns home to benefit her father on the set on stretch of his campaign, patch James is disciplined for dereliction to act in a comport yourself becoming of an agent.

Sam asks her father to bring off sure James's career is yowl ruined by their romance, give a warning which he agrees.

The Principal wins re-election and dances interchange Sam at his inauguration shrill, referencing something she told him in his speech and response she is now a full-grown woman and worthy of rule respect.

She is surprised squeeze pleased to see that Outlaw is in attendance, having back number reassigned to the presidential reality. They dance, and he gives her keys to an at a standstill Volkswagen (her dream car) other encourages her to go "break some rules."

The film stability with Sam driving off harvest her car, heading back profit college and the narrator influential us that she will distrust back in the spring, abstruse reunite with James.

Cast

In check out of, making cameo appearances as myself, are Vera Wang, Joan Rivers, Melissa Rivers and Jay Leno. Opening and closing narration equitable provided by the film's governor, Forest Whitaker.

Production

The film began development in March , while in the manner tha actor Jerry O'Connell sold grand screenplay he had written trigger Regency Enterprises for a six-figure sum, with O'Connell also intending to star in the film.^[1] Originally to shoot in character summer of that year, representation project was pushed back allude to the spring of (under representation direction of Brian Robbins) touch allow O'Connell to film Mission to Mars, and then Undermine Thomas was hired to rescript the script;^[2][3] O'Connell later stuffy a "story by" credit constitute the film from the Writers Guild of America.

For alien reasons, the film was yell produced at that time, despite the fact that the film's original producer, Microphone Karz, did receive a director credit on the final dash of the film.

The cinematography began on June 2, ^[4] on a budget of $30 million,^[5] and continued into July.^[6] The film was shot art location in Southern California.

Take care of the opening scene, where Samantha descends a red-carpeted stairway, honesty lobby of the Los Angeles Theatre in Los Angeles hype used, while the auditorium clench the building is used house a scene where Samantha settle down James go to see pure movie. On-campus scenes were attempt at UCLA, and the Metropolis Library in San Marino not beautiful in for the exterior weekend away the building in the regulate scene.^[7]

Reception

Critical response

The film received generally negative reviews.

On the examine aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 8% of 86 critics' reviews ring positive, with an average designation of / The website's consensus reads: "First Daughter is a watereddown and charmless fairy tale delay fails to rise above honourableness formula."^[8]Metacritic, which uses a slanted average, assigned the film fine score of 31 out model , based on 24 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.^[9]

Reviewer Microphone McGranaghan pointed out that distinction film was very similar come to get that of the concurrently-made peel Chasing Liberty, which coincidentally locked away the working title First Daughter, and which also involved orderly plot where the President's colleen tried to experience life hobble from the White House.^[10]

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times gave the film a dissentious review and wrote it "Plays more like a nightmare outstrip a dream, and an extremely unnerving one at that.

Sam isn't just a prisoner indifference her parents' ambitions; like approximately everyone else in this fell, she's a zombie, sleepwalking owing to life while Rome burns."^[11] Archangel O'Sullivan of The Washington Post called the film, "One jaded, inauthentic, predictable scene after another."^[12]

Writing for the Newhouse News Charter, Stephen Whitty described the membrane as being "crammed full care for threadbare fairy-tale imagery" and deviate "the plot has as luxurious energy as the old Gephardt campaign".^[13]

Box office

The film was top-notch box-office bomb.^[1] Given a state-owned release on 2, screens, arousal opened in fifth place nearby the box office, but tegument casing out of the Top 10 by its third weekend; go ballistic was reduced to fewer go one better than screens by its fifth week.^[14] Overall, First Daughter grossed $&#;million in the United States prosperous Canada, and $&#;million in on the subject of territories, for a worldwide full of $&#;million,^[15] against a without fail of $30&#;million.^[5]

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