Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The MPAA Rating: PG Entertainment: +3 Content: +2

Based on Ann Brashares best-selling novel, this is the story of four teenage girls lifelong friends and very different physically and intellectually who face their first summer apart. Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) will stay at home pursuing her hobby of making a documentary of coworkers in a huge retail store. Lenas (Alexis Bledel) parents are sending her to meet her Greek grandparents in Greece. Beautiful, athletic Bridget (Blake Lively) heads off to a summer soccer camp in Mexico. And Carmen (America Ferrera) is excited about spending the summer with her dad in Georgia. To stay connected, the friends buy a pair of jeans that miraculously fits each of them. They decide that each girl will wear the jeans for a week before sending them to one of the others. The Sisterhood celebrates the joys and sadness of growing up and the uniqueness of people.

The four friends learn some difficult lessons that ring of the truth that God loves His people as they are but too much to leave them there. Pesky, 12-year-old Bailey (Jenna Boyd) worms her way into serving as Tibbys video-shooting assistant, and her youthful wisdom and courage has its effect on cynical Tibby. Quiet, pretty and prudish Lena emerges from her shyness with the help of handsome Kostas (Michael Rady). Bridget, who pretends that shes nothing like her suicidal mother, brazenly pursues a young coach and has her first sexual experience. Feeling ashamed and empty, she learns the only thing worse than waiting is wishing you had. That incident is implied and shows no nudity. Carmen learns to accept her dads new life with a new family after a difficult visit. Unlike most teen movies, these girls are not into drugs, drinking or sex. A few crudities, a moderate obscenity and Lenas swimming in her underwear are the only questionable elements in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Preview Reviewer: Mary Draughon
Distributor: Warner Bros.