First Daughter

For once, a TV movie with Aussies pretending to be Americans, instead of the more common reverse. Americans trying to sound like Aussies always sound lame.

But for once WE were the lame ones! Yay!

As an Aussie, I found this movie great, just for the accents. The plot was not bad for a made-for-TV, and the acting was OK. But the best bit was listening to the "American" characters whose accents would slip from Yank to Oz and back to Yank in the same sentence... especially one of the President's Generals, played by the dad from "Hey Dad!" (one of the funniest shows in Oz TV history)

I thought this was going to be quite uneventful and boring but it turned out to be fairly good for a TV movie, and the acting wasn't bad except for the Jess's love interest. One gripe I have, and this is probably only because i'm from Australia, once I noticed that it was filmed here I couldn't get over the fact that it did not look anything like Colorado, where it was supposedly set. Unfortunately there's a distinct lack of gum trees in Colorado and another distinct lack of towering snow capped mountains in Australia as well

I thought this was an okay movie. It was on cable t.v.the other day so I watched it. I used to to be a fan of Pro Wrestling and I found out that Diamond Dallas Page was in this one! This was about a secret service agent (Hemmingway) who tried in the beginning of the movie to protect the President using her own judgment and not "by the book." Well, that move cost sentenced her basically to go with the President's daughter to a retreat for teens. The daughter feels too much of the pressure of her dad's office is smothering her and her life. She and the agent become good friends after she gets found towards the end. I just had one question though, where was the First Lady or was he divorced? They didn't really show that.

"First Daughter" has deficits in all the usual made-for-television ways. Poor technical consulting, contrived miniclimaxes every so often followed by cut-to-black for commercial breaks, 2nd tier acting talent, low budget, etc. Nonetheless, this predictable fabrication manages it's genre attributes well mixing comedy, romance, suspense, action, etc. resulting in an entertaining watch.

Whoa what a turkey this made for TV yarn is! Horrible acting chiefly by Mariel Hemingway who is completely unconvincing as a secret service agent. It's so bad the viewer can basically figure out what is going to happen scene to scene. If the films "Guarding Tess" "In The Line of Fire" "Deliverance" and "Meatballs" were to be spliced together this would be the result. A couple of good spots with the whitewater rafting and that's about it.