New Best Friend
New Best Friend
R | 12 April 2002 (USA)
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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.

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BlazeLime

Strong and Moving!

Unlimitedia

Sick Product of a Sick System

InformationRap

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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Humaira Grant

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

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adonis98-743-186503

A North Carolina sheriff investigates the near-fatal drug overdose of an underachieving college girl, and uncovers many sordid details of her life before and during her descent into drugs and debauchery. New Best Friend is a film that borrows plot points from many and much better films of the past but i didn't find it as bad as i was expecting it was actually quite fun and entertaining some moments could have been better and the ending could have been also much more suspenseful, the acting was actually okay and overall the movie was good for what it was it's not the greatest thriller of all time but it's not the worst one either. (7.5/10)

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guyfromjerzee

Please keep in my mind that I'm not classifying this as an artistically brilliant film. I'm not even classifying it as an artistically competent film. The film has "amateur" written all over it. From the dialogue to the plotting to...hell, the blocking of the actors. "New Best Friend" doesn't contain anything you wouldn't see in your average direct-to-video flick. I'm pretty sure the film went direct to video. I remember seeing the preview for the movie years ago, and for some reason it still stuck in my mind. I thought to myself, This looks like a direct-to-video flick, but...wait a minute, Taye Diggs is in it. I have no idea why Taye decided to take part in the flick. The film was released several years after he hit it big with "How Stella Got Her Groove Back." As you can imagine, he's probably the best actor in the film. The rest of the actors aren't bad either. Some of the acting is slightly hammy, but for the most part the performances didn't really take me out of the film. I haven't seen Mia Kirshner in many movies, but I liked her a lot in "Exotica." Not to mention I find her quite sexy. She's not what Hollywood would consider a "classic beauty," but I find her to be very gorgeous. It was cool to see Meredith Monroe play a bad girl. She played a much more innocent character on "Dawson's Creek." The plot is predictable and not much different than one you'd see in an average teeny-bopper soap opera. But what can I say? I was intrigued. It's good, trashy entertainment. Mia Kirshner's character goes through one of those only-in-the-movies transformations. She starts out a frumpy law student, who wears little makeup and has no fashion sense. All it takes is one wild party and one makeover from her new girlfriends, and viola! She's a drug-addicted slut! But what would a trashy teen melodrama be without implausible moments like that? The ending, to my surprise, doesn't contain a single twist. The writer/director didn't even attempt to make this film unpredictable.If you're looking to watch a deep, thought-provoking flick...this is NOT the film to see. But if you're simply looking to kill an hour and 30 minutes with good ol' trashy melodrama, "New Best Friend" is the film to see. Hey, let's face it. Every once in a while, you just need to kick back, check your brain at the door, and watch trashy flicks like these. It's fun after a hard day's work. The fact that almost all the actresses in the flick are hotties doesn't hurt either.

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stuart71857

This was a surprisingly wonderful, but tragic movie. Mia Kirshner is an underrated actress and a gorgeous woman to boot. The entire cast turned in good performances. Mia Kirshner has always surprised me in her roles. It doesn't seem to matter what she is portraying. It can be a drug addicted college girl that is just trying to fit in with everyone else. It can be a highly paid free-lance assassin on TV's "Twenty-four". Does anyone remember the movie she made in which a man is fantasizing about her being a stripper, but I believe she was actually just a girl next door type person? I only saw the last few minutes of it and I have forgotten the title entirely.

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Claudio Carvalho

In Lawrence Ville, the poor student of University Colby Alicia Campbell (Mia Kirshner), had an overdose and is in coma in the intensive care unit of the local hospital. Sheriff Artie Bonner (Taye Diggs) is called by the Dean (Edmund J. Kearney) and intimidated to carry out a shallow and discreet investigation, since the school is very dependent of the wealthy families of the riches students, and a scandal would jeopardize its reputation and consequently its income. The mother of Alicia, Connie Campbell (Glynnis O'Connor), is blaming her new upper class friends of drugging her daughter. Hadley Ashton (Meredith Monroe), Sidney Connors (Dominique `Lolita' Swan), Julianne McDowell Levinson (Rachel True) and Trevor (Scott Bairstow) have become her friend a few time ago, and Alicia was seduced by the `world of the rich people'. Through interviews and investigation of the manipulative students, Sheriff Bonner discovers the truth. I liked this amoral movie. The screenplay is intriguing and the story is presented in pieces through flashbacks along the investigation of Artie Bonner. In the end, none of the characters is really like we supposed they were. The problem with this movie is the age of the lead actresses. It is very hard to believe that, women of about thirty years old in real life can really play the roles of young women. Anyway, it is a good entertainment. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): `Perversas Intenções' (`Wicked Intentions')

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