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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
The thoroughly unremarkable Chasing Liberty makes it three negligible movies in a row for Mandy Moore.
Moore slips comfortably into her sweet-goofy role and Goode does his best to be brooding and attractive, but their combined efforts fail to strike romantic sparks.
An endless, virtually laugh-free pastiche of Aaron Sorkin by way of Aaron Spelling.
Sends messages much too mature for the young audiences to which they are pitching.
What could have been a fun movie falls victim to Mandy Moore's unfortunate miscasting.
Moore's abundant charm and the nicely exploited foreign locations are the only things this formulaic coming-of-age semi-comedy have going for it.
The picture is filled with Mandy Moore Moments -- approximations of recognizable human emotions, without the complicating necessity of actual feeling.
Forgettable fluff but it left me in an unaccountably bad mood, mainly because it's a step back for Mandy Moore.
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