New Best Friend (2002)
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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It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
The acting in this movie is really good.
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)
"New Best Friend" is a slow, pulpy but compelling mystery-thriller. It works in large part thanks to Meredith Monroe, who brings real depth to her role. Another one of its strong points is that the characters are not clearly labeled as "good" or "bad"; you can feel the evil hanging over everything but you never know where it will come from. On the negative side, there is at least one gaping story hole (in a flashback near the end, Kirshner's character appears to be at two different places at the same time!), and Taye Diggs is miscast (too young) as the investigator on the case. (**1/2)
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.