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Released
2004 · FILM

First Daughter

A rebellious president’s daughter enrolls in college hoping to live a normal student life, but must outwit an ever‑present Secret Service detail that threatens her chance at true independence and romance.

“The girl who always stood out is finally getting the chance to fit in.”

Directed by
Forest Whitaker
Written by
Jessica Bendinger, Jerry O Connell
Runtime
105 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

Samantha MacKenzie, daughter of the U.S. president, begins her college experience accompanied by a team of Secret Service agents. Despite their presence, she feels frustrated by the constant surveillance and longs to experience student life without the constraints of her security detail.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Richard ChewShot by Toyomichi KuritaScored by Michael KamenDesigned by Alec Hammond

Box Office

2004 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$10.6M

Budget$30.0M
Worldwide gross$10.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $5.0M

Peak 2,260 theaters

Also known as

  • Ein Date mit Hindernissende
  • First Daughter - Date mit Hindernissende
  • Des étoiles plein les yeuxfr
  • Una teenager alla Casa Biancait

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