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New Best Friend
Overwhelming dislike
Based on 15 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 8 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Victoria Strouse
Directed by: Zoe Clarke-Williams
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 12, 2002
DVD: July 16, 2002
Running Time: 91 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for strong sexuality, language and drug use
Starring Dominique Swain, Taye Diggs, Mia Kirshner, Meredith Monroe, Oliver Hudson, Rachel True, Joanna Canton, and Scott Bairstow
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)
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What The Critics Said
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Confidently directed and elegantly designed, this smart drama is sensitive, sympathetic and refreshingly free of glib moralizing.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle 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 >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The film isn't even enjoyably sleazy: It's just dumb and tacky.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Loren King
Tawdry, trashy yawn-fest that makes the viewer long for the days when bad girls were dangerous dames with sultry style.
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Preposterous collegiate drama that exists simply to show pretty girls kissing, pretty boys undressing and pretty people of every sexual orientation drinking, doing drugs and otherwise wreaking postadolescent havoc.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
Struggles awkwardly to bring a twist or two to its hoary class-conscious story line, aiming for a subtlety in character development that's smothered by excessive kitsch and kink.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
Obvious and exploitative even by low-bar youthpic standards.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
A lurid, unsavory mix of Reefer Madness hysteria, drive-in sleaze, and the queasy morality of '80s slasher film.
Read Full Review >Village Voice 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 >New Times (L.A.) Robert Wilonsky
Seems to exist solely to prove there is something beneath the bottom of the barrel.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
This movie could have easily been shot as porn, a transition that would have given it a modicum of respectability and, better still, true social purpose.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Calls itself a movie. It has words and pictures like a movie, and will appear in theatres like a movie, and will damn sure charge admission like a movie. But, truth be told, that's pretty much where the resemblance stops.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
90 minutes of ridiculous, silly fun. Of course, it's still a very bad movie.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.2 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Kat M. gave it a9:
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.
Lindzi V. gave it a9:
I Loved this movie! It kept me interested the whole movie and just had so much thrill to it.
A B gave it a 10:
Good movie!
K A gave it a 10:
This was a very good (and very underrated) movie. It's obvious that it's rating is screwed up. Like I said, it is a very smart movie and unpredictable movie.
Amy G. gave it a 10:
Most people may have turned this film off within the first 15 minutes but if you so quick to critisise stooges would have tuned in for a further half an hour you would have had an eyefull of girl on girl action... cute girls!!!!
Matt M. gave it a 0:
Perhaps the worst movie ever made. I wanted to OD on "pharmaceutical grade cocaine" by the end of the flick. Worth watching for the sheer, masochistic pain of the event....
