An American Daughter (2000)
A Senator's daughter seems to have a lock on a nomination as the US Surgeon General, until a background check reveals she once neglected to return a jury-duty notice. Then she makes a mistake in comments about her homemaker mother that leaves her open to a media blitz and her sure-fire nomination suddenly appears shaky.
- Date of release
- 2000-06-05
- TMDB
- 4.7 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Sheldon Larry
Casting
- Christine Lahti — Lyssa Dent Hughes
- Tom Skerritt — Walter
- Jay Thomas — Timber Tucker
- Mark Feuerstein — Morrow McCarthy
- Stanley Anderson — Sen. Alan Hughes
- Blake Lindsley — Quincy Quince
- Scott Michael Campbell — Billy
- Caroline Aaron — Veronica
- Will Rothhaar — Kip
- Matt Weinberg — Nicholas
- Teri Austin — Greta
- Lynne Thigpen — Dr. Judith B. Kaufman
Interesting facts
An American Daughter is a 2000 Lifetime Television film directed by Sheldon Larry. The teleplay was written by Wendy Wasserstein, based on her 1997 play of the same name.
Production
The made-for-TV film was broadcast on the Lifetime network in June 2000. The TV film is based on Wasserstein's play of the same title, An American Daughter, which ran on Broadway in 1997.
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