Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
When a young man agrees to housesit for his boss, he thinks it'll be the perfect opportunity to get close to the woman he desperately has a crush on – his boss's daughter. But he doesn't plan on the long line of other houseguests that try to keep him from his mission. And he also has to deal with the daughter's older brother, who's on the run from local drug dealers.
My Boss's Daughter is a formulaic early-2000s comedy that offers little beyond its chaotic premise. The plot is a thin, predictable series of escalating mishaps with no real cleverness or surprise, and the romantic throughline feels underdeveloped. Ashton Kutcher leads a cast that includes Tara Reid and Terence Stamp, but none are given much to work with beyond broad slapstick and mugging. Visually it is utterly generic, shot in the flat, uninspired style typical of low-budget studio comedies of the era. Novelty is the film's weakest point — it is entirely derivative of the farce-night-goes-wrong subgenre with nothing distinctive in conception, voice, or execution. The ending resolves predictably and without satisfaction, tying things up in the most conventional way possible.