Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera

Based on Ann Brashares' best-selling novel about a special summer in the lives of four lifelong friends separated for the first time. On a shopping trip, the young women find a pair of thrift-shop jea...( read more  read more... )ns that fits each of them perfectly and they decide to use these pants as a way of keeping in touch over the months ahead, each one wearing the jeans for a week to see what luck they bring her before sending them on to the next. Though miles apart, the four friends still experience life, love and loss together in a summer they'll never forget.

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PG, 1 hr. 59 min.

Directed by: Ken Kwapis

Release Date: June 1, 2005

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DVD Release Date: October 11, 2005

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  • September 25, 2009
    I watched this because I was in desperate in need of a really silly and light movie and it was the only thing available around me! And of course, I got exactly what I wished for.

    Sweet and fun, suitable to pass the time and just get involved in the characters' stories. Maybe sl...( read more)ightly unlikely at times and overly sappy, but otherwise goodhearted. I absolutely loved Jenna Boyd - she was the only one who actually acted some and the scenery of the Santorini Greek Island is just breath-taking.

    Good for two hours of fun, but leave your expectations at the door.
  • July 16, 2009
    Cute and harmless, it needs to be taken a little bit more seriously as it is not your average teen-chick flick. The performances are nice and every character is surprisingly well developed for, well, this kind of movie. We have to deal with the fact that this world, in its...( read more) vast diversity of audiences, needs movies for those annoying, pink, teen girls and if this is one of them, I'm OK with that: it won't rot their brain. Cool movie for a Saturday morning.

    I have only one complaint: Blake Lively's segment must be the worst portrayal of Mexico I've ever seen. How bad is it? Beverly Hills Chihuahua looks 100% mexican in comparison. It is that bad.

    One last confession: I cried. Thank you, Jenna Boyd: keep on the good work.
  • April 14, 2009
    Family-friendly films for girls usually drip with phony commercialism and pettiness of character; by comparison, this is not only a class-act, but a godsend. A super-estrogenized film, no doubt, but it speaks rather warmly and sincerely to the universal struggles of adolescence. ...( read more)I'm clearly not the target audience, but I genuinely enjoyed this feel-good tearjerker.
  • December 21, 2008
    I thought that they did a good job of staying true to the book and the characters. It's a great story about friendship and my fave girls' story in this one was Tibby & Bailey.
  • November 16, 2008
    This movie is so cute. I still cry every time Bailey is sick in the hospital. Everyone should have friends like that.
  • October 28, 2009
    This is just a cute, girly movie. I thought each of the storylines went together well and it was happy movie to watch with my friends.
  • October 27, 2009
    this movie was awsome
  • October 27, 2009
    a movie close to my heart...
  • October 22, 2009
    I'm interested only because I've seen the 2nd one.
  • October 20, 2009
    How do they all fit in the same pair of damn pants?

Critic Reviews


June 1, 2005
Claudia Puig, USA Today

It's heartening to see a movie about teenage girls that is concerned with serious questions and avoids the pettiness that filmmakers tend to ascribe to young women of that age. full review

June 1, 2005
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

A sweet-natured journey not to a galaxy far, far away, but to someplace just as mysterious: the first tentative steps toward adulthood, taken here by four teenage girls. full review

June 1, 2005
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Working from a deft script by Delia Ephron, director Ken Kwapis labors hard so that guys won't cringe (too much) as four teen girls, of different body types, pass along the same pair of lucky jeans du... full review

June 1, 2005
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

That rare meal both adolescent girls and their mothers will be able to agree on. full review

May 31, 2005
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

This Sisterhood is real pleasure, a big-hearted movie where a group of gifted actresses find opportunities most younger movie stars can only dream about. full review

May 27, 2005
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

The film's acknowledgement that growing up often requires coming to terms with loss results in a mature, untidy view of adolescence. full review

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  • brawlalley21
    February 4, 2009
    Friendship Never Ends!!!
  • crazykaren06
    October 8, 2008
    omg i so love this movie it reminds me of my friends from canada!!!! i came to houston and i havent seen them sence then!!! i miss them and hope to see them again!!!!! one of them came last summer to houston but it wasent the same
  • gloomgurl
    February 24, 2008
    Well, I cannot believe I just gave a chick flick a good rating. I tuned in to this movie because I was extremely bored and nothing else was on. I usually avoid chick flicks at all cost, because they are usually too girly and melodramatic, and i am basically, a guy in a girl’s body, but i said what the hell? Just watch the movie, and if you hate it, you hate it. That is just it. I did not hate it. In fact, i loved it. It was not at all too dramatic. It was not some dinky girly lame-brain movie. It actually was about things that mattered. One of the girls have unresolved anger towards her father for leaving her at a very young age and then forming another entirely different family, leaving her feeling like he was ashamed of her. Another girl had unresolved feelings about her mother’s death and did something she later regretted because she realized that at the time she was running away from the pain and thoughts of losing her mom. Another girl finds herself caught in a Romeo and Juliet situation, when she visits her family in Greece, and falls in love with the son of a family of which her family considers rivals. Lastly, one depressed emotionless girl find herself forced to be friends with a little girl who wants to be her assistant. She later finds out that the little girl has a terrible disease and she realizes that this little girl helped her find and express her emotions and find her heart. It was a nice movie. I really liked it, to my surprise.
  • superlaurab
    January 6, 2008
    does any1 no wen da 2nd film is cuming out???
  • sk8ter7rebel
    June 26, 2007
    great movie!!:X:X I seen more than 2 times and I cryed..each time I see it...:X:X
  • lostmyhalo1
    June 16, 2007
    the movie had nothing to do with the book. it was soo wrong. only half the movie was right...
    for instance: Lena's grandmother wanted desperatley for her to like/love Kostos...DUH...god did no one who read the book first then saw the movie think 'hold up a second thats wrong'...Grrr...either way it was a good movie and lets see when they make the second movie how acurate they are.
  • rpreppygirl
    June 16, 2007
    I loved this movie. It has such a good message. I was so happy to hear they're making the second movie. I'm still reading the series but i own all books.
  • xXGoneForeverXx
    June 2, 2007
    ....ew....never ever EVER want to see this movie again...or the sequels. The only reason i went the first time was 2 go on a date...he didn't kno me very well...guess the emo hair and makeup made me look preppy...lol
    but this movie suxed
  • angelicshehnila
    April 7, 2007
    i read the books and they rock.i really wanna see the movie.
  • DrMondo
    March 15, 2007
    I'm not sure what it is, but I like this movie more than a straight guy should.

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