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New Best Friend

How far would you go to fit in?

2002 · 1h 31m · R Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Zoe Clarke-Williams

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Overview

Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into Hadley's clique where she is introduced to a world of privilege and dangerous thrills. But her attempts to become one of them ultimately land her in the hospital.

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

Dennis Harvey, Variety
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A dull, generic title for a dull, generic film.

Sergio Mims, Chicago Reader
Rotten

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

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten

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

Peter Howell, Toronto Star
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Nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it, from its cheesy screenplay to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute, haphazard theatrical release.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

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