dream, and an exceedingly unnerving one at that. Sam isn't just a prisoner of her parents' ambitions; like nearly everyone else in this film, she's a zombie, sleepwalking through life while Rome burns." Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post called the film, "One hackneyed, inauthentic, predictable scene after another." The Spokesman-Review describes the film being "crammed full of threadbare fairy-tale imagery" and that "the plot has as much energy as the old Gephardt campaign". Box office The film was a financial failure. Opening in fifth place at the box office, First Daughter totaled at $9.1 million in domestic ticket sales and $10.4 million worldwide. It was Katie Holmes's second least successful mainstream film after Teaching Mrs. Tingle. The film performed better on home video and DVD, where it made $13.14 million in combined rentals and sales. Notes External links Official site First Daughter at Metacritic 2000s American films 2000s English-language films 2004 romantic comedy films 20th Century Fox films American romantic comedy films American teen comedy films Davis Entertainment films Films about fictional presidents of the United States Films directed by Forest Whitaker Films produced by John Davis Films produced by Wyck Godfrey Films scored by Blake Neely Films scored by Michael Kamen Films set in a movie theatre Films set in the White House Films set in universities and colleges Regency Enterprises films