The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Short description
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants follows four lifelong friends who face their first summer apart. Carmen, Lena, Bridget and Tibby have grown up together, but their plans now pull them in different directions: one to visit her father, one to a sports camp, one to relatives in Greece, and one to stay home and work. Before they separate, they find a pair of jeans that fits all four of them despite their different builds. They agree to pass the jeans along, each wearing them for a week, and the garment becomes a way of keeping in touch during a summer of new experiences.
Ken Kwapis directed the film, which sits in the middle of his filmography between the 1997 comedy The Beautician and the Beast and the 2005 release Sexual Life. Delia Ephron and Elizabeth Chandler wrote the screenplay, adapted from Ann Brashares's novel, and Denise Di Novi, Broderick Johnson and Andrew A. Kosove produced. Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera and Blake Lively play the four friends, with Jenna Boyd and Bradley Whitford among the supporting cast.
Made for about 25 million dollars, the film took in roughly 39 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.5 out of 10 from around 68,000 votes, and on TMDB it also stands at 6.5 out of 10, from a much smaller base of about 1,400 votes. A critics' rating of 6.7 out of 10 from 151 reviews places it slightly above both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The scene where the heroines played by Amber Tamblyn and Jenna Boyd lie in a park and look at the starry sky was filmed in a park near the sound stage. Some scenes were shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and its surroundings, and filming in the sound stage allowed the actors and crew to avoid working outdoors on cold Canadian nights. The scene where the heroine played by Alexis Bledel gets trapped underwater was filmed there as well.
- Less than a week before the scheduled start of filming, the family in whose house they were going to film the dwelling of the heroine played by Amber Tamblyn decided they didn't want to allow the film crew into their home. As a result, a new location had to be urgently found to film the living room scene, and the bedroom set had to be built in the sound stage.
- To film one of the scenes, the camera had to be placed on rails laid out in a circle around the main heroines. Unfortunately, completing a full circle of the camera around the heroines seemed impossible because at some point, it would start to move in front of the spotlights, creating a shadow. Fortunately, the special effects specialists were able to solve this problem by simply 'erasing' the shadow from the frame.
- While preparing for the role, Alexis Bledel spent time at a summer camp, where she learned to ride a scooter and a mule, as well as how to scuba dive and paint.
- Director Ken Kwapis never used the command 'Action!' to start filming. Instead, he would say, 'Quiet, please, and, uhhh, go.' He was teased repeatedly for this. Once, someone even ordered bright orange t-shirts with this phrase for everyone in the film's creative crew.
- Michael Rady, who played Costa, is originally from Philadelphia. He had to work hard to make his speech sound like that of someone from Greece.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
