New Best Friend

"How far would you go to fit in?"

Apr 12 2002 R 1h 31m
Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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.

Plot

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

Victoria Strouse

Directed by

Zoe Clarke-Williams

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

FGM Entertainment

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
3,608
Average Rating
5.3 out of 10
Metascore
13
Popularity
NA