new best friend be another entry in the steal another woman life sub genre while the best of which be single white female and the hand that rock the cradle while the bad of which you can catch almost any afternoon on the lifetime channel . for some reason this type of identity theft happen exclusively to woman . there be just two basic way to play this type of story . you can make the woman evil at the beginning and let the audience watch knowingly a she hatch and implement her evil scheme . or you use misdirection to make her appear a good person and a a seemingly unplanned series of event break in her favor until she be reveal to be evil in the climatic scene . unfortunately the maker of new best friend could not decide how they want to play it and thing crash and burn early . we first meet alicia ( mia kirshner ) scamming the college financial aid office for scholarship money . we now know that she be a bad person and will view all her subsequent activity with suspicion . but the director and editor apparently forget that this revelation have be make and spend the next 50 minute lay misdirection to make u think that alicia be a good person . this introduce the only element of suspense and not about whether she be evil but about when the director and editor will wise up and stop waste our time with transparent misdirection . new best friend suffer more than most from the teen movie curse of a cast too old to be portray undergraduate student . there be really only two big part and hadley ( meredith monroe ) and alicia ( kirshner ) . they be 31 and 26 respectively at the time of the production . it almost work for the 26 year old kirshner when she play the mousy version of alicia but it become glare when she be transform into the glamed up version of alicia . monroe casting be simply a joke and about like have nicholette sheridan try to pass a a classmate on lizzie mcgwire . she look much close to a mid life crisis than to a term paper . the producer must have owe a lot of favor because this age issue extend to most of the support character . taye diggs who play the town sheriff be young than most of the student . the basic setup be that hadley and two other rich party girl ( play by dominque swain age 21 and rachel true age 35 ) be undergrad roommate at college . they share ( a their student residence ) a mansion that be nice and well furnish than the mansion on real world new orleans ( a premise more believable than soccer mom play student ) . alicia move into the mansion and begin to take over hadley life . at least that way swain finally get a roommate from her own generation so the two can have a lesbian scene . swain supporting performance be the only good thing about new best friend and her love scene with kirshner be fantastic and so cool and artsy that it doesn not fit with any of the other segment and maybe it be subcontract out to a good director and cinematographer . the unintentionally hilarious story be present in a series of dreary flashback of rampant sex and nonstop party and each proceed by a shot of a comatose alicia in a hospital bed . about half of kirshner screen time be spend lie motionless with a tube in her mouth . not a good career move mia . then again and what do i know . i be only a child .