New Best Friend

2002 American film

April 12, 2002 (2002-04-12)

Running time

91 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$8 million^[3]Box office$46,375^[4]

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]

Plot summary

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]

Cast

Mia Kirshner as Alicia Campbell
Meredith Monroe as Hadley Ashton
Dominique Swain as Sidney Barrett
Rachel True as Julianne Livingstone
Eric Michael Cole as Warren
Scott Bairstow as Trevor
Taye Diggs as Sheriff Artie Bonner
Oliver Hudson as Josh
Joanna Canton as Sarah
Dean James as Max
Glynnis O'Connor as Connie Campbell
Ralph Price as Eddie

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a rating of 5%.^[9]

Box office

It grossed $46,375 against a budget of $8 million.^[10]^[7]

Notes

^ ^a ^b "New Best Friend (2002)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Crash registers at B.O." Variety. 14 April 2002. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
^ "Columbia, Winchester take over New Best Friend". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
^ New Best Friend at Box Office Mojo
^ "Columbia, Winchester take over New Best Friend". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
^ "New Best Friend". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Columbia, Winchester take over New Best Friend". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191074/ ^{[user-generated source]}
^ "New Best Friend reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
^ New Best Friend at Box Office Mojo