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Mixed or average reviews- based on 15 Ratings

  • Starring: Katie Holmes, Marc Blucas, Michael Keaton
  • Summary: Samantha Mackenzie (Holmes) wants what every college freshman desires: to experience life away from home and parents. But it's not going to be easy, because home for Sam is The White House and her dad (Keaton) is the President of the United States. (20th Century Fox)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 24
  2. Negative: 10 out of 24
  1. 50
    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.
  2. 50
    All heart and has the best intentions in the world, but what a bore. It's a beat slower than it should be, it makes its points laboriously, and the plot surprise would be obvious even if I hadn't seen the same device used in exactly the same way earlier this year in "Chasing Liberty."
  3. Reviewed by: Robert Dominguez
    50
    There are plot holes you can fly Air Force One through.
  4. It's a glossy, well-mounted, slickly done but almost stuporously predictable affair, both formula-bound and utterly illogical.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 5 out of 8

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