The First Lady is a 1992 American political thriller film directed by Rick Tisch and starring John Cusack, Jane Dancy, Richard Gere, Jack Germaine, Jeff Goldblum, Donald Sutherland and Paul Bollen. It was based off of the 1986 novel Mrs. Macbeth (released as President Macbeth in Europe and Oceania), concerning a White House staffer investigating the recent assassination of an unpopular President, and was a critical and commercial success.