New Best Friend

New Best Friend (2002)

  • 5% of critics liked it
    (38 reviews)

  • 41% of users liked it
    (2,724 ratings)

Three rich, pretty people befriend their poor, mousy classmate and live to regret it in this teen-centric thriller. Alicia (Mia Kirshner), Hadley (Meredith Monroe), Julianne (Rachel True), and Sydney (Dominique Swain) are four students enrolled in the same sociology class at Colby University, an… More

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R, 1 hr. 31 min.
Directed By
Zoe Clarke-Williams
Written By
Victoria Strouse
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Drama
In Theaters
Apr 12, 2002 Wide
On DVD
Jul 16, 2002
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Dennis Harvey, Variety

    A campus drama-cum-whodunit that's obvious and exploitative even by low-bar youthpic standards.

  • Sergio Mims, Chicago Reader

    A dull, generic title for a dull, generic film.

  • Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

    The party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks. The rest of the film ... is dudsville.

  • Peter Howell, Toronto Star

    Instead of trying to bust some blondes, [Diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad.

  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

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

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Deb S


    New Best Friend is entertaining trash that we find ourselves engrossed in as much as we hate to admit it. Mia Kirsher delivers a stellar performance as Alicia, a college girl who overdoses under suspicious circumstances and the prime suspects are her new upper class filthy rich… More

  • Joseph E


    Wait? Huh? What is this film about? hanh? Fitting in? "New Best Friend" is "Utterly Inane and ucomprehensible. Blurry Lesbian Sex,Drug parties,missing dialouge,and answers. This is one of the worst films to do about basicly nothing. Two Middle Fingers Up!" No… More

  • Yinalí R


    This movie was very deep. Kind of like Cruel Intentions, or thirteen...

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