MEAN GIRLS (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 2004
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: Tina Fey from Saturday Night Live wrote and appears in this comedy about the alternately funny and terrifying pecking order among teenage girls. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is a 15-year-old girl who has spent most of her life in Africa, where she was home-schooled by her zoologist parents. When her family relocates to the United States, Cady finds herself attending a high school in suburban Illinois, where she gets a crash course in the various sub-strata of the student body: the jocks, the cheerleaders, the stoners, the 'cool' kids, and so on. Much to her surprise, Cady finds herself embraced by a clique of rich and popular girls known to outsiders as 'the Plastics,' led by Regina George (Rachel McAdams), Gretchen Weiners (Lacey Chabert), and Karen Smith (Amanda Seyfried). While Cady is grateful for her new friends, it doesn't take long for her to realize how manipulative they can be, and she soon discovers she's violated an unwritten law when she goes out on a date with Aaron (Jonathan Bennett), who is charming, good looking...and Regina's former boyfriend. It isn't long before Regina and her pals are on the warpath, and Cady must face a level of vengeful behavior for which years in the jungle never prepared her. Joining Tina Fey in the supporting cast are fellow SNL players Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer, and Tim Meadows. The screenplay for Mean Girls was based in part on Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence, a book by professional youth counselor Rosalind Wiseman.
• Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer, Lacey Chabert, Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Franzese, Neil Flynn, Jonathan Bennett, Amanda Seyfried, Rajiv Surendra, Elana Shilling, Graham Kartna, Ely Henry, David Aherne, Ayo Agbonkpolo, Molly Shanahan, Jonathan Malen, Jeff Moser, Miranda Edwards, Les Porter, Eve Crawford, Jack Newman, Michelyn Emelle, Bathsheba Garnett, Ky Pham, Danielle Nguyen, Daniel DeSanto, Alisha Morrison, Dwayne Hill, Diego Klattenhoff, Jan Caruana, Wai Choy, Julia Chantrey, Jacky Chamberlain, Olympia Lukis, Stefanie Drummond, Kristen Bone, Jessie Wright, Tyson Fennell, Stephan Dickson, Andreja Punkris, Noelle Boggio, Jordan Dawe, Alexandra Stapley, Laura DeCarteret, Nicole Crimi, Erin Thompson, Dan Willmott, Michelle Hoffman, Valerie Casault, Sharron Matthews, Jo Chim, Randi Lee Butcher, Erin Jarvis, Kaylen Christensen, Jill Morrison, David Sazant, Clare Preuss, Bruce Hunter, Megan Millington, Tara Shelley, Shannon Todd, Heidi Kathy Bradhurt, Krysta Carter, Nicholas A. Catalano, Sima Fisher, John Gadsden, Lucila Grzetic, Talia Russo, Mark Waters
• Director: Mark Waters
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: Paramount
• Media Format: Movie