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The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants (film)
''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' is a 2005 American comedy-drama film directed by Ken Kwapis from a screenplay by Delia Ephron and Elizabeth Chandler, based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Ann Brashares. The film stars America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn, Blake Lively, and Alexis Bledel. The story follows four best friends who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits each of them despite their differing sizes. The girls share the pants equally as they spend their first summer apart. ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' was released in the United States on June 1, 2005, by Warner Bros. Pictures. A sequel, ''The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2'' was released on August 6, 2008, while a third film is in development. A musical adaptation based on the film is also in development. Plot Lena Kaligaris, Tibby Rollins, Carmen Lowell, and Bridget Vreeland are teenagers from Bethesda, Maryland, who have been best friends their whole lives. The girls are about to spend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Kwapis
Kenneth William Kwapis (born August 17, 1957) is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and author. He specialized in the single-camera sitcom in the 1990s and 2000s and has directed feature films such as '' Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird'' (1985), '' The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants'' (2005), and ''He's Just Not That Into You'' (2009). Personal life Kwapis was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, and grew up in neighboring Belleville. He is the son of Marge () and Bruno Walter Kwapis, who was an oral surgeon. He is of Polish descent and was raised Catholic, attending the Jesuit preparatory academy St. Louis University High School. He earned a Bachelor's degree at Northwestern University's School of Speech, after which he traveled west to enroll in the M.F.A. program at the USC School of Cinema-Television. Kwapis' twenty-four-minute thesis film, ''For Heaven's Sake'', won the Student Academy Award in 1982. The film is a contemporary adaptation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |