New Best Friend

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; the film was ultimately released theatrically in the United States in a limited release by TriStar Pictures on April 12, 2002. It was a critical and box office bomb.

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.

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

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a rating of 5%.

Box office
It grossed $46,375 against a budget of $8 million.