The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (film)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants released in the UK as The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants is a 2005 American drama film released by Warner Bros. Pictures, based on the novel The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares. It was directed by Ken Kwapis and written by Delia Ephron.
Four teenage girls Carmen, Tibby, Bridget, and Lena are best friends from Bethesda, Maryland, who are about to separate for the summer for the first time in their lives. Lena is spending the summer in Greece with her grandparents Tibby is staying at home Bridget is going to soccer camp in Mexico and Carmen is visiting her father in South Carolina. On one of their final days they went shopping together, the girls find a seemingly ordinary pair of jeans that fit them all perfectly and flatter their figures, despite their very different measurements. The girls dub them the Traveling Pants and decide to share them equally over the course of the summer. They part the next day, and the film focuses on each girls journey separately.During the summer, Carmen goes to her dads house in South Carolina. On arrival, she is shocked when her dad immediately introduces her to a new family that he is about to marry into they are blonde White AngloSaxon Protestants, unlike Carmen who was raised by her Puerto Rican mother. During her time there, her father and her new family neglect her emotionally, driving her to throw a stone through their dining room window, and catch a bus back to Maryland. At home she tells Tibby about her time with her dad and Tibby convinces her to confront her father with a phone call and finally tell him that shes mad at him. Carmen tells her father and he apologizes. Her summer ends with the four of them returning south where she is an attendant at her fathers wedding, where at the reception he makes a public apology for having snubbed her. ........
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