New Best Friend

Name: New Best Friend
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: April 12, 2002
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 13
Cast: Dominique Swain, Taye Diggs

2002

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Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) | Release Date: April 12, 2002 | R

Starring: Dominique Swain, Taye Diggs

Summary: A local sheriff's investigation into the activities of college seniors at exclusive Colby University casts a shadow of responsibility over a group of untouchable, affluent young women. (Tristar Pictures)

Director: Zoe Clarke-Williams

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 91 min

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Sean Axmaker

Confidently directed and elegantly designed, this smart drama is sensitive, sympathetic and refreshingly free of glib moralizing. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Great trash, one of those mediocre movies that in its own crass way is more enjoyable than most things that get nominated for Oscars. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Dudsville. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

Clearly the product of an editing-room scramble, New Best Friend is a self-lambasting farce, despite Kirshner's passionate college try at establishing a third dimension in a brain-dead movie flatland. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Obvious and exploitative even by low-bar youthpic standards. Read full review

Scott Tobias

A lurid, unsavory mix of Reefer Madness hysteria, drive-in sleaze, and the queasy morality of '80s slasher film. Read full review

Marc Savlov

90 minutes of ridiculous, silly fun. Of course, it's still a very bad movie. Read full review

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KatM.

Mar 5, 2007

A very good movie which is terribly under-rated. I do not understand why this movie got so many bad reviews. I loved the dynamic between the two main characters Hadley (Meredith Monroe, Dawsons Creek) and Alicia (Mia Kirshner, The L Word). Hadley is a self absorbed rich brat who has A very good movie which is terribly under-rated. I do not understand why this movie got so many bad reviews. I loved the dynamic between the two main characters Hadley (Meredith Monroe, Dawsons Creek) and Alicia (Mia Kirshner, The L Word). Hadley is a self absorbed rich brat who has everything she wants except her father's attention. Alicia is hard working student who dreams of being a lawyer. These two are polar opposites. However, when Alicia gets involved with Hadley and her clique, she starts to become someone else. Alicia not only warms up to Hadley's boyfriend Trevor, but also seems to recieve attention from Hadley's father. In a jealous rage, Hadley switches party mix with 100% pharmaceutical grade cocaine. Alicia thinking she's snorting the fake stuff O.D.'s from the real thing. Taye Diggs is the sheriff who is investigating Hadley, Julianne (Rachel True, The Craft), and Sidney (Dominique Swain, Toxic) on how Alicia O.D.ed. The only reason I did not give this movie a 10 is because some points in the movie were practically predictable. Other than that I thought it to be a very good movie.… Expand

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SimpsonFans

Aug 8, 2016

Two Words. It stunk.
It stunk like freaking hell.
Like freaking freaking hell hell hell.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>88888888888888888888OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

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