Blake Lively celebrated her big breakthrough as Serena van der Woodsen in the hit series Gossip Girl, which kept teenagers on the edge of their seats for five seasons from 2007 to 2012. Lively has now become an integral part of Hollywood and is currently making box office hits in theaters with Just One More Time: It Ends with Us.
However, the fact that the actress started her career 19 years ago in a cult film is almost forgotten today. We are talking about One for 4.
Long before Gossip Girl and It Ends with Us: The cult film The Foursome paved the way for Blake Lively’s career
The coming-of-age film by Ken Kwapis (He’s Just Not That Into You) revolves around four friends who have been inseparable since early childhood. During the summer holidays, the four are on their own for the first time. Carmen (America Ferrera) is planning a summer with her father, Lena (Alexis Bledel) is travelling to her grandparents in Greece and Bridget (Lively) is going to training camp with her football team. Tilly (Amber Tamblyn) is the only one who stays behind and works as a cashier at the local supermarket.
Just before they go their separate ways, they discover an old pair of jeans that surprisingly fits them all equally well. Symbol of their friendship The pants are meant to keep them together forever as the “Sisterhood of Traveling Jeans” and to support them in good times and bad.
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The film was released in 2005 as a typical teen comedy, which was ranked alongside other representatives of the genre such as Mean Girls, She’s the Man or Clueless and is still considered a cult film by fans today. In addition to Lively, who played her first major role here, the film also stars Gilmore Girls star Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Barbie this year, and Amber Tamblyn (Django Unchained).
One for 4 with Blake Lively was a hit with audiences and critics in 2005
The film holds a review score of strong 82 percent from 152 reviewswhile the audience scored a no less impressive 76 percent. This puts One for Four in third place among the best-rated films starring Blake Lively, with the list topped by the Ben Affleck thriller The Town.
The cult film was followed by a sequel in 2008, The Adventures of Four, in which Lively returned as Bridget. However, the sequel was unable to match the success of the first film with either critics or audiences, even though it achieved similar box office numbers.
One for 4 is currently streaming via subscription on Amazon Prime Video *. The sequel is available to buy or rent on the streamer.
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What has gone wrong at Netflix in the last five years? Why are films like Rebel Moon a thing of the past? And what does the future hold? Jenny and Jan Felix raise these and other considerations in their discussion about the end of a Netflix era.
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