danceability-1
Cut Them Some Slack - New Best Friend Rocks! As both a big fan of this movie and a film student, I feel that critics have been quick to judge this film as bad trash. This film has a sexy edge to it, that many other films in the "teen film" genre dare to exhibit. New Best Friend fullfills a fantasy for those girls who secretly desire to live dangerously and party every night, without it actually becoming a reality. The house is every girl's dream, and these girls are alluring and suavely tempting. The acting is far from terrible, and it was great to see Meredith Monroe in a more sophisticated and darker role than her role as Andie in Dawson's Creek. Dominique Swain once again puts in an A+ effort for her role as the cheeky deviant Sydney. For anyone who loved films like Tart and Cruel intentions,this is the film for you.Actors: Taye Diggs, Mia Kirshner, Meredith Monroe, Dominique Swain, Scott Bairstow, Rachel True.danceability-1, Amsterdam Holland
Johnny Beffet
I would have to disagree on most of the user comments on this movie. Most insist it is a piece of trash, not worth viewing. And yes perhaps they're right about the trashy part but in my humble opinion, New Best Friend is in the same kind of league as 90210 - entertaining trash that as much as we hate to admit it, we actually find ourselves engrossed in.Yes, the story is unoriginal and the script poor but the performances by the key actors are good enough to keep viewers interested. Mia Kirsher (Exotica, The Crow:City of Angels) delivers a stellar performance despite the bad material she was given to work with. An actress of her calibre should be choosing better parts in significantly better movies but I'm willing to forgive her for making one bad decision (but that's only because personally I didn't find New Best Friend a complete waste of my time). Meridith Monroe, Dominique Swain and Rachel True are all effective in their roles however one bad performance has to come from Taye Diggs as the officer in charge of investigating Alicia's (Kirsher) overdose which has suspicious circumstances. Diggs usually turns in fine performances but in New Best Friend he just looks bored. Perhaps that's due to the lack of good material he had to work with.Overall I found New Best Friend to be an entertaining movie. Sure there was a lot of things wrong with it and it certainly won't go down as one of my favourite films of the year but it succeeds for what it is - great trash!
Claudio Carvalho
In Lawrence Ville, the poor student of University Colby Alicia Campbell (Mia Kirshner), had an overdose and is in coma in the intensive care unit of the local hospital. Sheriff Artie Bonner (Taye Diggs) is called by the Dean (Edmund J. Kearney) and intimidated to carry out a shallow and discreet investigation, since the school is very dependent of the wealthy families of the riches students, and a scandal would jeopardize its reputation and consequently its income. The mother of Alicia, Connie Campbell (Glynnis O'Connor), is blaming her new upper class friends of drugging her daughter. Hadley Ashton (Meredith Monroe), Sidney Connors (Dominique `Lolita' Swan), Julianne McDowell Levinson (Rachel True) and Trevor (Scott Bairstow) have become her friend a few time ago, and Alicia was seduced by the `world of the rich people'. Through interviews and investigation of the manipulative students, Sheriff Bonner discovers the truth. I liked this amoral movie. The screenplay is intriguing and the story is presented in pieces through flashbacks along the investigation of Artie Bonner. In the end, none of the characters is really like we supposed they were. The problem with this movie is the age of the lead actresses. It is very hard to believe that, women of about thirty years old in real life can really play the roles of young women. Anyway, it is a good entertainment. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): `Perversas Intenções' (`Wicked Intentions')
purpobandit
Not very interesting teen whodunit saved from being a turkey from some decent performances. The main cast consisting of Taye Diggs, Mia Kirshner, Dominique Swain and surprisingly Meredith Monroe are all good but the story is not very original.
AD
