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Mean Girls

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Original title

Mean Girls

Year

2004

Running time

97 min.

Country

United States

Director

Mark Waters

Screenwriter

Tina Fey. Book: Rosalind Wiseman

Cast

Music

Rolfe Kent

Cinematography

Daryn Okada

Producer

Paramount Pictures

Genre

Comedy | Teen/coming-of-age. Schools & University. Teen Comedy. Bullying. Cult movie

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Synopsis

A teenage girl, Cady (Lindsay Lohan), who has been away on safari with her parents, arrives at a new high school in Illinois, where she is accepted into a A-list clique of girlfriends (McAdams, Chabert, others). When she attracts the interest of the ex-boyfriend (Bennett) of one of her new friends, however, she is marked for punishment by the rules of the clique, which uses practices like nasty gossip, banishment from their lunch table, three-way calling (conversations between two people with a third person secretly listening in), cruel Internet messages and 'the silent treatment' to get their point across. Soon, Cady finds herself using the same tactics in retaliation against her so-called friends...

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Awards: 2004: Nominated for Critics' Choice Awards: Best Young Actress (Lohan)

2004: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay

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"Though not a perfect comedy, it manages to be quite often laugh-out-loud funny. The film's strong cast, including scene-stealing 'SNL'er Tim Meadows as the school principal, also helps smooth out most of the rough edges."

Robert K. Elder: Chicago Tribune
"[It] dissects high school society with a lot of observant detail, which seems surprisingly well-informed. The screenplay by 'Saturday Night Live's' Tina Fey is both a comic and a sociological achievement (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"[It] works for its first three-quarters, then implodes as it approaches the finish line (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
"It has the ambitious and cartoony dark side of a Disney Channel sitcom, with a lively and talented young cast headed by the cherubic Lindsay Lohan."

Elvis Mitchell: The New York Times
"Fey subverts formula to find comic gold. She’s a brash new voice in movie comedy. Boy, do we need her now (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"Mean Girls has the same fancifully dead-on tone as the 1995 high-school comedy 'Clueless' without the sweetness because, hey, these snits are mean."

Mike Clark: USA Today
"A vinegary fable with a Splenda aftertaste -- is a harbinger of hope not only for future feminist comedies of any grit but also for 'SNL''-staffed feature films that don't disproportionately suck."

Lisa Schwarzbaum: Entertainment Weekly
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3 My Favorite Teen Movies (129)
12 Guilty Pleasures: Bad Movies I'm Into (139)
52 My Top 10 Movies from 2004 (58)

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