Mean Girls (2004) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Mean Girls
Year
2004
Running time
97 min.
Country
United States
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Music
Cinematography
Producer
Genre
Comedy | Teen/coming-of-age. Schools & University. Bullying. Teen Comedy. 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...
Awards
2004: Nominated for Critics' Choice Awards: Best Young Actress (Lohan)
2004: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
Critics' reviews
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
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Ranking Lists Position
- 3 My Favorite Teen Movies (128)
- 12 Guilty Pleasures: Bad Movies I'm Into (139)
- 52 My Top 10 Movies from 2004 (58)
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