Forgettable fluff but it left me in an unaccountably bad mood, mainly because it's a step back for Mandy Moore.
Chasing Liberty (2004)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:8
Rotten:25
Average Rating:4.9/10
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
Moore's lip-glossed petulance never catches fire with Goode's canned drollery.
It's one TV-movie romp that Kristy McNichol never got around to starring in.
Chasing Liberty will probably win over as many fuddy-duddy fathers as fillies with its mixture of sweetness tempered with genial cynicism.
An endless, virtually laugh-free pastiche of Aaron Sorkin by way of Aaron Spelling.
Chasing Liberty is strictly vanilla-flavoured, status quo entertainment.
A feather-light, doggedly formulaic romantic comedy that's almost instantly forgettable despite the sunny presence of teen queen Mandy Moore.
Chasing Liberty is a comedy with no sense of fun, a romance with no passion.
Chasing Liberty is fine (if empty) fun, and much credit for that should go to feisty Moore.
Chasing Liberty is a many-unsplendoured thing, but the one thing it isn't is a movie.
One of those efficiently made formula films that keeps movie houses open during the early part of the year.
I'm not even sure it deserves to be called a movie. It's more a package built from Moore's smile, adolescent ideas about romance and plenty of picture-postcard photography.
Chasing Liberty is surprisingly good in areas where it doesn't need to be good at all, and pretty awful in areas where it has to succeed.
An innocuous, occasionally cute movie made watchable by the appealing Mandy Moore and hunky Matthew Good.
Mandy Moore stars in a romantic comedy that stumbles trying to stay in the footfalls left before it by Roman Holiday and It Happened One Night.
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