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Mia Kirshner, Dominique Swain, and Taye Diggs in New Best Friend (2002)

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New Best Friend

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Sheriff Bonner was initially written as a white southern hick, but Producer Frank Mancuso Jr. suggested making the character black.
In the scene where Alicia trashes her room, Mia Kirshner scratches herself so hard that she actually drew blood.
The bartender tells Sheriff Bonner that Alicia and Hadley were kicked out because they were having a "pier-six brawl". A pier-six brawl (or fight) has been widely employed to refer to hard-fought boxing contests for nearly a century prior to the film, and it was inserted into the lexicon of professional wrestling by legendary announcer Gordon Solie to reference any of the contests that resulted in both of the participants sporting a "crimson mask" - one of Solie's favorite descriptions of a blood-drenched face.

There was an actual pier six on the Hudson River in New York City. Though its official name was Amos Dock, for unskilled workers looking to see the many regular boxing matches that took place there, they simply counted until they got to number six. The fight that originated the term, however, was likely an 1854 match between politician John Morrissey and butcher Bill Poole, the events of which inspired Gangs of New York (2002).
The events of the film happen over the course of a year as evidenced in Hadley's house parties. Alicia enters Hadley's world during a Valentine's Day party, and she overdoses after a Halloween party.
The scene where Hadley injures her wrist was shot in the same cement factory as The Crow: City of Angels (1996), which also starred Mia Kirshner.

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