First Daughter

First Daughter is a 2004 romantic comedy film that revolves around a Presidential daughter who enrolls at a college. It stars Katie Holmes as "First Daughter" Samantha Mackenzie, and Marc Blucas as James Lansome, another student at the college. The film follows Samantha as she is given a new sense of freedom during her time away from the White House, and her life's gradual transformation into something resembling "normal", but also her realisation that she must appreciate the life she already has.

Reception

A number of viewers and reviewers pointed out that the film's plot is very similar to the film Chasing Liberty (In fact Chasing Liberty's working title was First Daughter), involving the President's daughter staying away from the White House. Like Chasing Liberty, the film was not well received by critics. The consensus among the reviewers is that First Daughter has a more realistic yet slower storyline than Chasing Liberty.

Related Topics:
Chasing Liberty - President - White House

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The film was not a financial success. Opening in fifth place at the box office http://www.boxofficeguru.com/archives2.htm, First Daughter ended up with just $9.1 million in domestic ticket sales, and $10.4 million worldwide http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=firstdaughter.htm. It was Katie Holmes' second least successful mainstream film after Teaching Mrs. Tingle http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Actor&id=katieholmes.htm. The film performed better on home video and DVD, where it made $13.14 million in combined rentals and sales http://www.leesmovieinfo.net/wbotitle.php?t=2593§ion=4.

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