Desc: An American Daughter: Directed by Sheldon Larry. With Christine Lahti, Tom Skerritt, Jay Thomas, Mark Feuerstein. 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.