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At the start of a new semester at an exclusive University, a girl from the other side of the tracks is paired with a rich townie on a class project. At first rejected, she is finally accepted into their clique where she is introduced to a world of privilege and dangerous thrills.
Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1, 1.78:1
MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 ounces
Director : Zoe Clarke-Williams
Media Format : Anamorphic, Full Screen, DVD, Widescreen, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled
Run time : 1 hour and 31 minutes
Release date : October 5, 2004
Actors : Taye Diggs, Oliver Hudson, Dominique Swain, Mia Kirshner, Meredith Monroe
Subtitles: : English, French
Producers : Frank Mancuso, Jr.
Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
ASIN : B000068QJR
Number of discs : 1
Reviewer: Jeanna
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Really good sad, funny and full of scandal movie
Review: Really good sad, funny and full of scandal movie. College kids doing some truly wild living as this group is comprised of mostly rich kids until a class project connects a not even close to being rich kid with the rest of the group. Will save the rest for you to watch.
Reviewer: Michael Jon fuller
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Collection
Review: Added to the collection of mine
Reviewer: SIERRA
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: GOOD MOVIE! EXCELLENT PERSON TO DEAL WITH
Review: GOOD MOVIE ! EXCELLENT PERSON TO DEAL WITH! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
Reviewer: Glamadiva
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good but you know right away...
Review: who did the deed. Sad that many young people are like this today, not just social climbing but into every drug and experimenting sexually w/far too many people just for kicks. Good plot & good acting. Recommend.
Reviewer: Only-A-Child
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If You Want to See Soccer Moms Playing Undergraduates
Review: "New Best Friend" is another entry in the "steal another woman's life" sub-genre; the best of which are "Single White Female" and "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"; the worse of which you can catch almost any afternoon on the Lifetime Channel. For some reason this type of identity theft happens exclusively to women.There are just two basic ways to play this type of story. You can make the woman evil at the beginning and let the audience watch knowingly as she hatches and implements her evil scheme. Or you use misdirection to make her appear a good person, as a seemingly unplanned series of events break in her favor until she is revealed to be evil in the climatic scene. Unfortunately the makers of "New Best Friend" could not decide how they wanted to play it and things crash and burn early. We first meet Alicia (Mia Kirshner) scamming the college's financial aid office for scholarship money. We now know that she is a bad person and will view all her subsequent activity with suspicion. But the director and editor apparently forgot that this revelation had been made and spend the next 50 minutes laying misdirection to make us think that Alicia is a good person. This introduces the only element of suspense, not about whether she is evil but about when the director and editor will wise up and stop wasting our time with transparent misdirection."New Best Friend" suffers more than most from the teen movie curse of a cast too old to be portraying undergraduate students. There are really only two big parts, Hadley (Meredith Monroe) and Alicia (Kirshner). They were 31 and 26 respectively at the time of the production. It almost works for the 26 year-old Kirshner when she plays the mousy version of Alicia but it becomes glaring when she is transformed into the glamed-up version of Alicia. Monroe's casting is simply a joke, about like having Nicholette Sheridan try to pass as a classmate on "Lizzie McGwire". She looks much closer to a mid-life crisis than to a term paper.The producers must have owed a lot of favors because this age issue extends to most of the supporting characters. Taye Diggs who plays the town sheriff is younger than most of the students.The basic setup is that Hadley and two other rich party girls (played by Dominque Swain-age 21 and Rachel True-age 35) are undergrad roommates at college. They share (as their student residence) a mansion that is nicer and better furnished than the mansion on Real World-New Orleans (a premise more believable than soccer moms playing students). Alicia moves into the mansion and begins to take over Hadley's life. At least that way Swain finally gets a roommate from her own generation so the two can have a lesbian scene. Swain's supporting performance is the only good thing about "New Best Friend" and her love scene with Kirshner is fantastic, so cool and artsy that it doesn't fit with any of the other segments, maybe it was subcontracted out to a good director and cinematographer.The unintentionally hilarious story is presented in a series of dreary flashbacks of rampant sex and nonstop parties, each proceeded by a shot of a comatose Alicia in a hospital bed. About half of Kirshner's screen time is spent lying motionless with a tube in her mouth. Not a good career move Mia.Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
Reviewer: webmaker
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This is a good movie.
Review: I like the characters in this. It's a good detective movie.
Reviewer: Micheal Dailey
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great delivery
Review: Good times delivery and the product works
Reviewer: mystuff
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Movie
Review: I loved this movie. Great acting...storyline. Worth watching.
Reviewer: Tatjana Ries
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Freundinnen oder Feindinnen, das ist hier die Frage.Die eine hat Geld, den perfekten Freund und jede menge Freunde, wehrend die andere neu ist und alles nutzt "hinten herum" um ebenfalls Erfolg und alles was die "andere" besizt zu bekommen....
Reviewer: Very satisfied customer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Arrived on time, strange movie, not one to recommend.
Reviewer: "tonycobb92"
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This film is an absolute classic!! The cast is fantastic, the story is gripping,intense, and keeps you watching!!!The best bit for me is a scene where Scott Bairstow (Killing Mr Griffin) is butt-naked in the shower!! But all in all, this film is excellent!! Get a copy now!!!!!
Reviewer: C M Smith
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: An interesting film, if you liked 'Cruel Intentions' then you will love this film. Its not unique but sex, drugs and lies always make for a good story line.
Reviewer: Leonard Hubbard
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Five star dvd to watch