New Best Friend is a 2002 American psychological thriller film based on a story by author James Edwards. The film was originally owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which eventually lost the rights to it. Later, Sony Pictures acquired the rights to distribute the film in the United States and some other territories mainly on home video;[5][2] the film was ultimately released theatrically in the United States in a limited release by TriStar Pictures on April 12, 2002.[6] It was a critical and box office bomb. [7]
New Best Friend | |
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Directed by | Zoe Clarke-Williams |
Written by | Victoria Strouse |
Produced by | Frank Mancuso Jr. |
Starring | Mia Kirshner Meredith Monroe Dominique Swain Rachel True Eric Michael Cole Scott Bairstow Taye Diggs |
Cinematography | Tom Priestley Jr. |
Edited by | Norman Buckley Leo Trombetta |
Music by | David A. Hughes John Murphy |
Production company | FGM Entertainment[1] |
Distributed by | TriStar Pictures[2] (through Sony Pictures Releasing[1]) |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $8 million[3] |
Box office | $46,375[4] |
A North Carolina sheriff (Taye Diggs) investigates the near-fatal drug overdose of a working class college girl (Mia Kirshner) and discovers many sordid details of her life before and during her descent into drugs and debauchery.[8]
On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a rating of 5%.[9]