First Daughter (2004)
Critic Reviews
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Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Just one more in the plague of weak Cinderella stories released in the past year. It's too sugary to be good for you, but in the end, its over-the-top sweetness won't kill you.
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Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Is there a limit to this incessant princessitude?
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The role of a poised daddy's girl is a dull one for Holmes, who looks pained, in a nonspecific way, throughout her capers; the movie itself, with a screenplay by Jessica Bendinger and Kate Kondell, is a dull one for director Forest Whitaker.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Though First Daughter delivers a nice twist about midway through and Keaton lights up the screen every time he's on it, Holmes fails to deliver the kind of nuanced performance "Pieces of April" suggests she's capable of.
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Los Angeles Times
While First Daughter is nowhere near as airheaded or disingenuous as "Chasing Liberty," it's far more confused.
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Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
It's a glossy, well-mounted, slickly done but almost stuporously predictable affair, both formula-bound and utterly illogical.
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Variety Robert Koehler
There are stiff politicians and there are stiff political movies, but the rigidity of the White House-based fairy tale that is First Daughter is in a category even pollsters may have a hard time assessing.
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The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
A bland, formulaic picture where romance and comedy are noticeably absent. A more wooden and uninspired effort from talented people behind and in front of the camera is difficult to imagine.
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Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
One hackneyed, inauthentic, predictable scene after another.
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The New York Times Manohla Dargis
Plays more like a nightmare than a dream, and an exceedingly unnerving one at that. Sam isn't just a prisoner of her parents' ambitions; like nearly everyone else in this film, she's a zombie, sleepwalking through life while Rome burns.
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