The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is a 2005 American coming-of-age 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.

[3] Lifelong best friends Lena Kaligaris, Tibby Rollins, Carmen Lowell, and Bridget Vreeland are teens from Bethesda, Maryland are about to spend their first summer apart.

While wearing the Pants, Lena is saved from drowning by local Greek boy Kostas Dounas.

Working at a department store, Tibby finds young girl Bailey Graffman unconscious, so calls 911.

Devastated, Tibby then edits her film inspired by and called “Bailey.” Arriving in South Carolina, Carmen finds her white father Al about to marry Lydia, mother of teens Paul and Krista.

When Carmen comes downstairs speaking Spanish, assuming her father still understands her from his marriage to her mother, she is told that nobody does.

Carmen eventually returns home and sees Al and her step-family happily enjoying dinner together, oblivious of her absence.

Tibby convinces Carmen to confront her father by phone, during which she expresses her feelings of neglect and abandonment.

She isolates herself when returning home, but when Lena finds her note, she sends Carmen and Tibby to Bridget's.

On his way back to Columbia University, Eric apologizes to Bridget for his behavior and hopes she will consider him when she is older.

The girls meet Lena at the airport, driving to South Carolina to attend Carmen's father's wedding, despite her reluctance.

[4] Producer Debra Martin Chase, also behind the Cheetah Girls and Princess Diaries films, said Ferrera was "the first one we cast."

The site's critical consensus reads "This adaptation of a beloved novel charms with its heartwarming tale of friendship and young adulthood; realistic portrayals of the lives of teenage girls lend the comedy-drama sincerity, and may capture hearts outside the female-centric demographic.

[12] Demi Adejuyigbe has mentioned that he coerced director Malcolm D. Lee to have characters from the film appear as background cameos in Space Jam: A New Legacy.