The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants (2005)
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Four best friends share a mysterious pair of jeans that inexplicably fits all of them as they spend their first summer apart.
The story
Lifelong best friends Lena Kaligaris, Tabitha 'Tibby' Rollins, Carmen Lowell, and Bridget Vreeland are teens from Bethesda, Maryland who are about to spend their first summer apart. While shopping together, the four find a pair of jeans that inexplicably fit them all perfectly despite their very different figures. They decide to share them equally over the summer, before parting the next day. The story follows their individual journeys as Lena visits Greece, Bridget attends soccer camp in Mexico, Carmen visits her father in South Carolina, and Tibby stays home.
- First release year
- 2005
- Runtime (minutes)
- 119
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Ken Kwapis
- Writers
- Delia Ephron · screenplay; Elizabeth Chandler · screenplay
- Cast and characters
- Amber Tamblyn; America Ferrera; Blake Lively; Alexis Bledel; Bradley Whitford; Nancy Travis; Rachel Ticotin; Jenna Boyd
- Genres
- coming-of-age; comedy-drama
- Themes
- friendship; coming-of-age; cultural disconnect; family dynamics
- Tone and mood
- earnest; touching
- Premise and plot tags
- buddy comedy-drama; coming-of-age; teen romance; vacationing
- Source material / true-story basis
- 2001 novel of the same name by Ann Brashares
- Franchise connections
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (film series)
- Content notes
- virginity
- Reception
- The film received generally favorable reviews, with an 82% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 66/100 score on Metacritic. Audiences gave it an A- grade on CinemaScore.
- Production trivia
- Hilary Duff was considered for the role of Tibby but was passed over for Amber Tamblyn.; The film was partially shot in British Columbia, including a Zellers store in Coquitlam.; Shondaland noted that Bridget's white underwear in the trial scene was iconic.
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