In Chasing Liberty, Mandy Moore plays the teenage daughter of the President. She's tired of having her every move shadowed by the Secret Service, who of course just want to protect her but end up ruining her date with some tool. So in the middle of a concert in Prague, she runs away from the agents and hitches a ride with some guy on his scooter. She convinces him to accompany her to some "Love Parade" in Berlin, but unbeknowst to her, he's also actually a Secret Service agent tasked with protecting her.
If you can't see all the angles in this one, you're not too bright. Of course he falls in love with her and can't decide between lust and duty. Of course she finds out that he's really an agent planted by her father. Of course fate tears them apart and puts them back together again.
The most entertaining aspect of the movie is the side-story between two agents played by Jeremy Piven and Annabella Sciorra. Piven spends most of his watch hitting on Sciorra (amusingly only using her last name, as "all" police partners do), she brushes him off. Of course, they eventually fall in love, too.
Morals of the story:
- Teens, your parents love you and want what's best for you, and they're probably watching you even when you don't know it.
- Parents, the chaperone you send to watch your child may ironically be the very guy that deflowers her.
- Employees, if you sexually harass your co-worker long enough, eventually she'll grow to love you.
Overall, it's a tolerable movie. Mandy Moore is cute and even naked in one scene (though regrettably it's a long-distance rear shot that reveals nothing). There's not too much sappiness and nothing ridiculously unrealistic happens. You could do a lot worse than Chasing Liberty.
