It's your typical stuff but the leads are easy on the eyes, and Jeremy Piven and Annabella Sciorra add some fun as Moore's bodyguards.
Chasing Liberty (2004)
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Reviews Counted:112
Fresh:21
Rotten:91
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Formulaic comfort food for the teen crowd.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual content and brief nudity
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Jan 9, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $12,145,090
Synopsis: Budding teenage beauty Anna Foster (MANDY MOORE) wants the American dream: life and liberty to pursue happiness. But as the only child of the President of the United States, every detail of... Budding teenage beauty Anna Foster (MANDY MOORE) wants the American dream: life and liberty to pursue happiness. But as the only child of the President of the United States, every detail of Anna's life is constantly monitored by the media, the public and her very protective parents — who are backed up by a battalion of Secret Service agents that safeguard Anna from any danger, including the perils of first dates. Charming and irreverent, Anna just wants the freedom to live life like any other teenager — which means ditching the agents who are seriously curbing her good times. While on a diplomatic trip to Europe with her parents, Anna extracts a promise from her father, the President, which allows her a night alone, unescorted. But when her dad has a change of heart, Anna decides to take things into her own hands. In a wild escape, incognito Anna meets mysterious stranger Ben Calder (MATTHEW GOODE), who reluctantly aids her European getaway. Reveling in her newfound independence, Anna decides to take Europe by storm, accompanied by dashing Ben. As Anna's madcap European adventure takes her farther from her family and brings her closer to Ben, she's dreading the day her holiday will come to an end. Because the most powerful man in the free world is her father, Anna knows that she has a lot more to worry about than getting grounded. But before she can face the President, she has to find a way tell Ben the truth about her identity and risk getting her heart broken -- the one thing her father can't fix. -- © Warner Bros. [More]
Starring: Mandy Moore, Jeremy Piven, Matthew Goode, Annabella Sciorra
Starring: Mandy Moore, Jeremy Piven, Matthew Goode, Annabella Sciorra, Caroline Goodall, Mark Harmon, Roots, Cody Chestnutt
Director: Andy Cadiff
Director: Andy Cadiff
Screenwriter: David Schneiderman, Derek Guiley
Producer: David Parfitt, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove
Studio: Warner Bros.
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Reviews for Chasing Liberty
Chasing Liberty is fine (if empty) fun, and much credit for that should go to feisty Moore.
It’s nothing that countless romances haven’t done before, but then the target audience... isn’t likely to have seen... Roman Holiday or It Happened One Night.
The movie's most disarming aspect is its old-fashioned regard for Europe as a charming, fun, cosmopolitan, friendly place.
Teen-targeted romantic comedy about President's daughter Mandy Moore pursuing her liberties is surprisingly sweet and civil.
This brand of romantic comedy mostly depends on the appeal of its stars, and Mandy Moore is an uncommonly gifted young talent.
Unlikely to win many creativity awards, but it's cute, it's entertaining.
I know I'm supposed to intensely dislike this latest Mandy Moore offering. The problem is that I don't dislike it -- intensely or otherwise.
Rather than off-putting or cloying, its youthful exuberance is positively contagious.
It confronts the universal adolescent plea for freedom from parental supervision, taken from the sly angle of a rich kid’s rejection of material privilege
Chasing Liberty will probably win over as many fuddy-duddy fathers as fillies with its mixture of sweetness tempered with genial cynicism.
Bastou um pouco de ambição para que este simpático representante do gênero 'água-com-açúcar' deixasse o similar (e ruim) A Filha do Presidente a anos-luz de distância.
Familiarity doesn't always breed contempt. In the case of Chasing Liberty, it breeds affection.
Like the recent Freaky Friday, pic also manages to maintain an appealingly even-keel temperament, sympathizing with the frustrations of both parents and children.
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