The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
Starring: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, and Blake Lively
Directed by: Ken Kwapis
Based on the book by: Ann Brashares
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Grade: A+

This movie is beautiful. The four girls are perfectly cast. Tibby (Tamblyn), Lena (Bledel), Carmen (Ferrera), and Bridget (Lively) are four best friends that are going to be apart for the summer. After they find a magical pair of pants that somehow fit all four of their very different bodies, they decide they will stay together by sending the pants back and forth between them. Tibby stays in their boring hometown, working at a local grocery store. But after she meets Bailey, a little girl who fainted in the store, her summer becomes more interesting. Bailey helps Tibby make her documentary on people in the town. As she and Bailey become closer, it becomes clear that Bailey is hiding something. Shy Lena is sent to spend the summer with her relatives in Greece. There, she meets the handsome and charming Kostas. She learns from her grandmother that Kostas' family are enemies of their family and Lena realizes they are like Romeo and Juliet. Carmen spends the summer with her father in South Carolina. She is suprised when she finds out that he has a new family. And, of course, they don't get along. Bridget spends her summer in Mexico at a soccer camp. She thinks one of the coaches is really cute, but they can't date because he's one of the coaches. As the pants circle around each of the four girls, a miracle happens when the girl wears them. But not all miracles are what they appear.