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My Date with the President's Daughter
VHS cover for the film
Directed by	Alex Zamm
Produced by	Kevin Inch Mike Karz
Written by	William Robertson Alex Zamm
Starring	Dabney Coleman Will Friedle Elisabeth Harnois Mimi Kuzyk Wanda Cannon Jay Thomas Chantal Leblanc-Everett
Distributed by	ABC
Release date(s)	April 19, 1998 January 1, 2004
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

My Date with the President's Daughter is a 1998 made-for-TV comedy film produced by Buena Vista Home Entertainment and Walt Disney.^[1] It is about a free-spirited 16-year-old daughter of the American president who makes a date with a high school teenager named Duncan, then sneaks away from her Secret Service and has a wild night on the town.

Plot

Duncan Fletcher is an average teenager in search of a date to his school's spring dance. While at the mall with his friends, he meets a girl, Hallie, who just happens to be the daughter of the President of the United States, George Richmond. Duncan, not realizing this, asks her to his school's dance. She accepts and gives him her address (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue) and he replies by telling her he will pick her up at 7:00.

That night, Duncan's father declines his request to borrow the company car, a red BMW E34. Duncan takes the company car anyway and goes to the address Hallie gave him to pick her up, only to end up at the White House. He does not yet realize she is the president's daughter, and at first believes Hallie was playing a joke on him.

When he enters, Hallie has Duncan meet her father, and Duncan is informed that there are limitations on where they can and cannot go, and that the Secret Service will be with them the entire time. Hallie says that they were just going to dinner and a movie, but at the movie theater, they sneak away from the Secret Service. Hallie and Duncan go to a movie and they get away with pretending to make out. They go to a store called f/x and get new clothes. Duncan uses his father's credit card and spends $730.16. After they go shopping, Duncan lets Hallie drive.

They encounter many obstacles throughout the night: Duncan's father's car getting stolen, confrontations at a dance club and a tavern, having a fight with each other, and then defending themselves from a local bully. Hallie's and Duncan's fathers are out looking for them throughout the city but end up being arrested for a traffic violation by a traffic cop who fails to recognize the President. Duncan and Hallie both manage to come home safe but unhappy as they realize after their first kiss how much they like each other.

At the end of the film, even though they never make it to the dance, Duncan is satisfied about the outcome of the date. His dad gets mad about the whole thing and grounds him, but after he calms down decides to do more father-son things with him once he gets ungrounded, until he learns about what Duncan did with his credit card and accidentally crashes his car as a result. President Richmond comes to Duncan's school to thank him for taking such good care of his daughter and allow Duncan to continue of seeing Hallie as well as establishing a friendship with Duncan's family. Duncan's dad gets a promotion after his employer is overjoyed of being able to meet and play golf with the President which saves his job and apparently causes him to remove Duncan's grounding sentence. Hallie and Duncan are able to pursue a real relationship and happily go on a second date. The camera zooms to reveal multiple Secret Service SUVs and a helicopter following them.

Cast

Inspirations

• Duncan may possibly be named after Duncan U. Fletcher, a U.S. senator.
• The concept of a teenage first daughter is likely based on Chelsea Clinton, daughter of president Bill Clinton. The film was released during the Clinton administration.

Production

Though the film is set in Washington, D.C., the movie was filmed in Toronto, Ontario.

Soundtrack

The film featured the aptly titled song "My Date with the President's Daughter" by the band The Presidents of the United States of America, describing events similar to those in the plot.

References

External links

• My Date with the President's Daughter at the Internet Movie Database
• My Date with the President's Daughter at Allmovie
• My date with the president s daughter