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Title: New Best Friend (2002)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Mia Kirshner | ... | Alicia Campbell | |
| Meredith Monroe | ... | Hadley Ashton | |
| Dominique Swain | ... | Sidney Barrett | |
| Scott Bairstow | ... | Trevor | |
| Rachel True | ... | Julianne Livingston | |
| Taye Diggs | ... | Sheriff Artie Bonner | |
| Glynnis O'Connor | ... | Connie Campbell | |
| Joanna Canton | ... | Sarah | |
| Eric Michael Cole | ... | Warren | |
| Oliver Hudson | ... | Josh | |
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Dean James | ... | Max |
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J. Michael Hunter | ... | Charlie |
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Edmund Kearney | ... | Dean (as Edmund J. Kearney) |
| Don Henderson Baker | ... | Haas | |
| Shawn Michelle Cosby | ... | Joanie | |
At fancy, private Colby University, in the North Carolina hills, a drug overdose puts a senior near death. The school administration calls in the acting sheriff to conduct "a delicate and discrete investigation" - a whitewash. The more he digs, the more evidence he finds that the overdose may have been attempted murder. In flashbacks that parallel his investigation, we see Alicia, a scholarship girl worried about her grades, gradually pulled into the social life of three rich and amoral young women, led by the blond Hadley, a femme fatale. Before the investigation ends, we've met boyfriends, a drug dealer, Alicia's mom, Hadley's dad, nurses, doctors, and an orderly. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
I think that those who rated this movie as a really bad movie just expected to much. I mean this was released direct to home video, so that should say something right out of the video store. This movie is what it is, a simple mystery movie, a simple click movie about taking in a nobody and making her a somebody and then regretting your decision when it comes back to haunt you. Towards the end I really felt sad for Hadley (Meredith Monroe) and could totally see why she did what she did. She built her lab partner, with good intentions mind you, from nothing into a resultant someone, and watched basically as she took her life away from her, all not meaning to do so....
Now would this movie have made it in the theaters? No, I don't think so. But considering the usual quality of movies that go directly to video, this is one of the better ones.
Bello