Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
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77% of critics liked it
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78% of users liked it
(253,369 ratings)
Ann Brashares' best-selling novel for young adults comes to the big screen in this engaging comedy drama. Carmen (America Ferrera), Bridget (Blake Lively), Lena (Alexis Bledel), and Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) are four teenage girls who have been close friends since they were babies (and even before… More Ann Brashares' best-selling novel for young adults comes to the big screen in this engaging comedy drama. Carmen (America Ferrera), Bridget (Blake Lively), Lena (Alexis Bledel), and Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) are four teenage girls who have been close friends since they were babies (and even before -- their mothers all knew each other from attending the same prenatal exercise class). However, fate has dictated that for the first time ever the young women will be spending their summer apart -- Carmen will be visiting her father, whom she hasn't seen in years, Lena will be visiting her grandparents in Greece, Bridget is attending a soccer camp in Mexico, while Tibby is stuck working at a discount store. A few days before Carmen, Lena, and Bridget leave, the four go shopping, and while at a thrift shop they discover an unusual pair of blue jeans that, despite the fact they're all of different height and weight, fits all four women perfectly. The girls buy the jeans and pledge to each look after them for a week at a time, hoping they'll bring one another good luck as the girls deal with a variety of new life experiences, both good and bad. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Ken Kwapis
- Written By
- Delia Ephron, Elizabeth Chandler
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jun 1, 2005 Wide
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Ken Tucker, New York Magazine
The film is filled with positive messages ...
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Scott Moore, Washington Post
The emotional story and fine acting are enough to make this a must-see movie for teen girls. The real surprise is that they can make a grown man cry.
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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.
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Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Kudos to a movie that encourages girls -- and everyone else -- to accept their bodies, to forgive their friends and family and to live their lives to the fullest.
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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.
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Cast
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Amber Tamblyn
as Tibby
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Alexis Bledel
as Lena
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America Ferrera
as Carmen
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Blake Lively
as Bridget
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Jenna Boyd
as Bailey
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Bradley Whitford
as Al
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Nancy Travis
as Lydia
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Rachel Ticotin
as Carmen's Mother
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Mike Vogel
as Eric
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Michael Rady
as Kostas
- Leonardo Nam
- Maria Konstandarou
- George Touliatos
- Kyle Schmid
- Erica Hubbard
- Emily Tennant
- Jacqueline Stewart
- Sarah-Jane Redmond
- Ernie Lively
- Kendall Cross
- Kristie Marsden
- Patricia Mayan Salazar
- Patricia Drake








