It stars Katie Holmes as Samantha MacKenzie, daughter of the President of the United States, who enrolls at college and develops a relationship with another student (Marc Blucas).

Due to her father's political career, she has been in the public eye her entire life and spent most of her high school years in the White House.

Having to deal with a lack of privacy and public scrutiny for the most ridiculous things, Sam has had a sheltered existence and her father has trouble giving her more freedom yet is too busy to spend time with her.

Accompanied by Secret Service agents everywhere she goes, and with her father running for re-election, Sam finally believes she has the chance to break out of her cocoon when she is allowed to attend college in California.

To thank James and Mia for their tolerance of her complicated world, Sam flies them home to D.C. to attend a ball, with the dresses delivered to her personally by Vera Wang.

Feeling heartbroken and betrayed, Sam tries to readjust to college life, but an attempt to make James jealous only results in her drunken photo splashed across tabloid articles.

The President wins re-election and dances with Sam at his inauguration ball, referencing something she told him in his speech and acknowledging she is now a grown woman and worthy of his respect.

[10] Manohla Dargis of The New York Times gave the film a negative review and wrote it "Plays more like a nightmare than a dream, and an exceedingly unnerving one at that.

"[12] Writing for the Newhouse News Service, Stephen Whitty described the film as being "crammed full of threadbare fairy-tale imagery" and that "the plot has as much energy as the old Gephardt campaign".