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New Best Friend
Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into Hadley's clique where she is introduced to a world of privilege and dangerous thrills. But her attempts to become one of them ultimately land her in the hospital.
Release : | 2002 |
Rating : | 5.2 |
Studio : | FGM Entertainment, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Mia Kirshner Meredith Monroe Dominique Swain Rachel True Scott Bairstow |
Genre : | Drama Thriller Mystery |
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So much average
One of my all time favorites.
Nice effects though.
Did you people see the same film I saw?
Cut Them Some Slack - New Best Friend Rocks! As both a big fan of this movie and a film student, I feel that critics have been quick to judge this film as bad trash. This film has a sexy edge to it, that many other films in the "teen film" genre dare to exhibit. New Best Friend fullfills a fantasy for those girls who secretly desire to live dangerously and party every night, without it actually becoming a reality. The house is every girl's dream, and these girls are alluring and suavely tempting. The acting is far from terrible, and it was great to see Meredith Monroe in a more sophisticated and darker role than her role as Andie in Dawson's Creek. Dominique Swain once again puts in an A+ effort for her role as the cheeky deviant Sydney. For anyone who loved films like Tart and Cruel intentions,this is the film for you.Actors: Taye Diggs, Mia Kirshner, Meredith Monroe, Dominique Swain, Scott Bairstow, Rachel True.danceability-1, Amsterdam Holland
A lot of people told me about this movie before I finally got the time to see it. I really LOVED it! The story, all mixed up, is incredibly well directed. This is the story of a crime/accident/overdose that happened in a rich College School. A young brilliant poor student who tried to fit in with the rich chicks of her school... an overdose that first looked like an accident. That looked like a suicide. But did anyone mentioned that maybe it would be a murder? EVERYTHING in that movie was SIMPLY PERFECT, the confusion, that way they managed to keep you wondering, the music. Everything!! Of course, if all you do is looking for sex scenes, you'll be disappointed. There are erotic sex scenes but if all you do is looking for a big pair of boobs jumping out of the screen, i think you'd better look for something else... something more brainless. I'm telling you, New Best Friend is one of the BEST MOVIES I've ever seen!!!
I caught this movie on HBO Signature and almost turned it off after the first 10 minutes, but then I got caught up in some of the interesting performances of the actors. The movie is a not-so-surprising who-done-it involving a college girl who overdoses under suspicious circumstances surrounding her new bad-girl friends.The plot line is solid though not hugely interesting or imaginative. What kept me watching this movie were the performances of Taye Diggs and Meredith Monroe. This is one of those movies where the characters could easily fall into cliche: black cop with an attitude in a rich college kid town; rich bitch girl who's daddy does not understand her.Some of the credit might have to go to the scipt, but Taye Diggs is just great in putting a Gary-Cooper manner into his character of the Sheriff, giving him far more depth than you'd expect from this movie. It was impressive the way that the character was played as completely indifferent to the obvious racial juxtapositioning.Meredith Monroe is absolutely terrific in this movie. I'd seen her before on Dawson's Creek and never would have suspected she could play a role as subtly brilliant as this one. She never overplays a role that has all the earmarks of a formula character. Monroe is enchanting here and I think she's going to be a star.Some of the sex scenes seemed out of place in this movie. I don't understand the reason for all the girl-girl kissing and implied sex after the point was made that the central character was not what she seemed. (Other than the obvious, I mean.)Overall, this movie was not a spell-binder or a must see, but it is absolutely worth watching just for the interesting character portrayals by Taye Diggs and Meredith Monroe.
Spoilers Herein Not at all a bad movie - with decent acting by the four leads: Meredith Monroe ("Dawson's Creek" and "Minority Report), Mira Kirshner ("Not Another Teen Movie"), Dominique Swain ("The Smokers"), and Rachel True (frequent guest-star on "The Drew Carey Show"). Mira Kirshner is perfect as Alicia, the good girl outcast turned bad. She is great in the scenes with Hadley's father. Dominique Swain gives a good performance as Sydnee, the bisexual and deeply troubled and angry teenager. Meredith Monroe is believable as the "queen bee" of her clique. Taye Diggs ("Chicago") is horrible and not believable for a second as the sheriff investigating Alicia's overdose on cocaine.This is a script that a talented high-school student could pull off - nothing special. But this movie is not so bad. The combination of the believable acting and directing make this movie almost good. This is definitely a girl movie - directed by a woman, written by a woman, produced by a woman, casted by women, and about women.Watch this movie - it's refreshing after the stream of bad, bad movies like "Crossroads", "Not Another Teen Movie", "The Smokers", and "American Pie 2".