Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Theatrical Release Date: 2005 06 01 (USA)

UPC: 012569593336

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Adult Situations, Suitable for Teens]

Summary: 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 will be visiting her father, whom she hasn't seen in years, Lena will be visiting her grandparents in Greece, Bridget is attending a soccer camp in Mexico, while Tibby is stuck working at a discount store. A few days before Carmen, Lena, and Bridget leave, the four go shopping, and while at a thrift shop they discover an unusual pair of blue jeans that, despite the fact they're all of different height and weight, fits all four women perfectly. The girls buy the jeans and pledge to each look after them for a week at a time, hoping they'll bring one another good luck as the girls deal with a variety of new life experiences, both good and bad. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Comedy Drama

Features: ccAdditional scenes with commentary by Ken Kwapis
Fun on the set: go behind the scenes to share the stars' on-set gags and laughs
Suckumentary: Rough cut of Tibby and Bailey's documentary
Sisters secrets and the traveling pants: See and hear the Gal Pals as they watch selected scenes from the movie and talk about what it was like to film them
A conversation wit author Ann Brashares Theatrical trailer
Languages: English (Fran?ais (Dubbed in Quebec)
Subtitles: English, Fran?ais & Espa?ol (feature film only)

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Format: DVD

Release Date: 10/11/2005

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 119 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
1. There for Each Other [4:12]
2. Impossibly Perfect Fit [3:35]
3. Sisterhood Rules [4:08]
4. Room With a View [2:37]
5. Don't Even Think About It [1:51]
6. Dad's Surprise [2:38]
7. Price on Her Head [1:41]
8. Falling in With Kostos [3:15]
9. I'll Race You [1:46]
10. Who Is This Guy? [1:49]
11. Bad Reputation [3:04]
12. Unquiet Desperation [2:54]
13. Checking Out This Competition [4:25]
14. Second Offenses [2:47]
15. Secret Activities [4:57]
16. Pains in the Neck [3:54]
17. Open to Love [:07]
18. Interrupted Dance [5:03]
19. Found Out [2:35]
20. Carmen Doesn't Exist [3:29]
21. Single-Minded Bridger [2:02]
22. Shattering Point [3:18]
23. Being Afraid [2:20]
24. On Whose Side? [4:20]
25. Together and Apart [2:34]
26. No Matter What [5:00]
27. Taking Her Chance [2:09]
28. Why, Dad [3:15]
29. Letting the Magic Work [2:43]
30. One Loser to Another [5:13]
31. Strength in Numbers [2:45]
32. Promise Me a Shot [4:01]
33. Heading for a Wedding [2:26]
34. Important Family Member [3:33]
35. Accessorized End Credits [3:20]

Michael Hastings

The bar for teen melodramas may be set very, very low, but by any benchmark, this multi-character summer-vacation saga is a warm, winning, unusually savvy pubescent-chick flick anchored by four talented young actresses. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants takes a potentially saccharine premise -- four best friends make a summer pact to keep in touch via a pair of jeans that magically fits each of them -- and leavens it with healthy doses of humor, wit, and realism. Director Ken Kwapis may not exactly break the mold, but he has a deft sense of pacing and setting that keeps each of the girls' four summer adventures distinctly her own. Better still, he realizes that in order to keep his audience equally interested in each storyline, he needs to create a palpable camaraderie among the foursome at the beginning of the film; it's rare to see a girl-buddy movie where the girls in question actually seem like well-matched friends. The movie strays into mawkish "life lessons" territory near its (overlong) ending, but even here, the performers -- in particular the natural, unforced America Ferrera -- save the movie from any potential histrionics. And while this PG-rated Sisterhood isn't afraid to confront such issues as divorce, death, and sexual curiosity, it does so subtly, in a manner that won't necessarily raise the eyebrows of any preteens in the audience. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Denise Di Novi  Producer 
Cliff Eidelman  Composer (Music Score) 
Ken Kwapis  Director 
Delia Ephron  Screenwriter 
Debra Martin Chase  Producer 
Broderick Johnson  Producer 
Andrew Kosove  Producer 
Elizabeth Chandler  Screenwriter 
Kira Davis  Executive Producer 
Alison Greenspan  Executive Producer 
Leslie Morgenstein  Executive Producer 
Amber Tamblyn  Actor 
Alexis Bledel  Actor 
America Ferrera  Actor 
Blake Lively  Actor 
Jenna Boyd  Actor 
Bradley Whitford  Actor 
Nancy Travis  Actor 
Rachel Ticotin  Actor 
Mike Vogel  Actor 
Michael Rady  Actor 
Leonardo Nam  Actor 
Maria Konstandarou  Actor 
George Touliatos  Actor 
Kyle Schmid  Actor 
Erica Hubbard  Actor 
Emily Tennant  Actor 
Jacqueline Stewart  Actor 
Sarah-Jane Redmond  Actor 
Ernie Lively  Actor 
Kendall Cross  Actor 
Kristie Marsden  Actor 
Patricia Mayan Salazar  Actor 
Patricia Drake  Actor 

Country: USA