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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)

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77

Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 129
Fresh: 99 | Rotten: 30

This adaptation of a beloved novel charms with its heartwarming tale of friendship and young adulthood; realistic portrayals of the lives of teenage girls lend the comedy-drama sincerity, and may capture hearts outside the female-centric demographic.

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 2

This adaptation of a beloved novel charms with its heartwarming tale of friendship and young adulthood; realistic portrayals of the lives of teenage girls lend the comedy-drama sincerity, and may capture hearts outside the female-centric demographic.

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Ann Brashares' best-selling novel for young adults comes to the big screen in this engaging comedy drama. Carmen (America Ferrera), Bridget (Blake Lively), Lena (Alexis Bledel), and Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) are four teenage girls who have been close friends since they were babies (and even before -- their mothers all knew each other from attending the same prenatal exercise class). However, fate has dictated that for the first time ever the young women will be spending their summer apart -- Carmen

PG,

Drama, Comedy

Delia Ephron, Elizabeth Chandler

Oct 11, 2005

$43.5M

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The film is filled with positive messages ...

December 9, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Magazine
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The emotional story and fine acting are enough to make this a must-see movie for teen girls. The real surprise is that they can make a grown man cry.

June 1, 2005 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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It's heartening to see a movie about teenage girls that is concerned with serious questions and avoids the pettiness that filmmakers tend to ascribe to young women of that age.

June 1, 2005 Full Review Source: USA Today
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Kudos to a movie that encourages girls -- and everyone else -- to accept their bodies, to forgive their friends and family and to live their lives to the fullest.

June 1, 2005 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment (1)
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A sweet-natured journey not to a galaxy far, far away, but to someplace just as mysterious: the first tentative steps toward adulthood, taken here by four teenage girls.

June 1, 2005 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
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The relationships and performances are strong and moving, with an effect both breezy-fun and profound.

June 1, 2005 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune
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It sounds like it should be incredibly trite, but it never really is, despite a few alarming dips into the waters of cliché. Strong performances from the four leads carry a well-crafted film along to its emotional but never quite poignant ending.

April 1, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net
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Pop moviemaking aimed towards an underserved demographic, but one respects its approach in assuming its audience is at least intelligent and emotionally mature.

August 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies
Window to the Movies

Sensitive portrayal of four girls' friendships.

July 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Equal parts touching and corny, the film is a sentimental teen girl summer adventure that has enough genuine moments to rise above its familiar feeling of plain old recycled clothing.

May 24, 2007 Full Review
Long Island Press

For the most part, director Ken Kwapis and screenwriters Delia Ephron and Elizabeth Chandler (who adapted Ann Brashares' novel) keep things tart, dry-eyed and briskly moving.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

Four friends on a quest to find something, only to realize that anything resembling an answer is to be found in the journey itself, in their friendships, and in themselves.

October 11, 2006
Christianity Today

Sisterhood is one of those rare teen movies that not only encapsulates the hazards of growing up but allows an adult audience to relate to and enjoy instead of endure.

December 28, 2005 Full Review Source: Cinema Sight
Cinema Sight

Makes my skin crawl. You?

December 18, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central
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Audience Reviews for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

A really underrated film! I really like this one. The soundtrack is awesome too.
November 27, 2010
jamers2011
Jameson Worley

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Unfocussed and poorly scripted. Full review later.
July 31, 2009
TomBowler
Thomas Bowler

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    1. Tibby: She said that we were right all along and that the pants are magic and I don't know the details but I do know Lena; and for her to say that means... that it must be true. So I was thinking that maybe you could have them for a while.
    2. Bailey: They don't fit me, remember?
    3. Tibby: Yeah, I know, but that doesn't matter... none of it really matters... you have to take them, Bailey. Okay, you have to let them help you, please. I know that you're tired, okay, but you can't give up, the Pants will give you a miracle, you have to believe.
    4. Bailey: The Pants have already worked their magic on me. They brought me to you.
    – Submitted by Ric A (8 months ago)

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