New Best Friend
New Best Friend is a 2002 American psychological thriller film based on a story by Victoria Strouse. 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; the film was ultimately released theatrically in the United States in a limited theatrical release by TriStar Pictures on April 12, 2002. It was a critical and box office bomb.
Plot summary
A North Carolina sheriff investigates the near-fatal drug overdose of a working class college girl and discovers many sordid details of her life before and during her descent into drugs and debauchery.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
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