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Mean Girls

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Teenage Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) was educated in Africa by her scientist parents. When her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, Cady finally gets to experience public school and gets a quick primer on the cruel, tacit laws of popularity that divide her fellow students into tightly knit cliques. She unwittingly finds herself in the good graces of an elite group of cool students dubbed "the Plastics," but Cady soon realizes how her shallow group of new friends earned this nickname.

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Critics Consensus

Elevated by a brilliant screenplay and outstanding ensemble cast, Mean Girls finds fresh, female-fronted humor in the high school experience.

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Joe Clay

Times (UK)

Fey does not take the book too seriously, finding plenty of cruel humour in the bitchy battles between Cady and Regina.

Jan 25, 2024

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Kirk Honeycutt

Hollywood Reporter

One of the movie's achievements is persuading the audience to stay firmly in Cady's camp during her odyssey of self-discovery.

Jan 8, 2024

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Anthony Quinn

Independent (UK)

This teen comedy is terrific. Superbly scripted by Saturday Night Live head writer Tina Fey, it explores the viciously divisive cliques that render the American high school a virtual battleground.

Rated: 4/5

Jan 8, 2024

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Nicholas Barber

Independent on Sunday

Tina Fey, who also plays Cady's maths teacher, has packed the screenplay with enough barbed one-liners to ensure that, as high-school comedies go, Mean Girls is near the top of the class.

Jan 10, 2024

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Michael D. Reid

Victoria Times Colonist (B.C., Canada)

This wickedly funny, dead-on portrait of teen cruelty is leavened by an amusingly executed plea for human kindness and non-conformity.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 10, 2024

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Elizabeth Barr

Buffalo News

There is a plot, but it's a distant second to the movies elaborate pecking order.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jan 10, 2024

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Sam B

Forget the remake this is the Queen. Super acid but shows the consequences of nasty actions. One of Lindsay Lohan's best!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/14/24

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Audience Member

Incredible could watch it a million times and every line is still iconic

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/14/24

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Martin G

Bad except like 7 jokes (3 of those became good memes)

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

04/28/24

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Mad M

This movie is so fetch. Shout out my South African homies.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/25/24

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Christian J

Iconic. I have watched this movie over 100 times.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/14/24

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Audience Member

Hasn’t aged well in some areas but is still a very iconic movie with many memorable lines and scenes.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/14/24

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Mark Waters

Director

Lindsay Lohan

Cady Heron

Rachel McAdams

Regina George

Tina Fey

Mrs. Norbury

Tim Meadows

Mr. Duvall

Amy Poehler

Mrs. George

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Mean Girls: Official Clip - Cady Goes Primal

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Synopsis

Teenage Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) was educated in Africa by her scientist parents. When her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, Cady finally gets to experience public school and gets a quick primer on the cruel, tacit laws of popularity that divide her fellow students into tightly knit cliques. She unwittingly finds herself in the good graces of an elite group of cool students dubbed "the Plastics," but Cady soon realizes how her shallow group of new friends earned this nickname.

Director: Mark Waters
Producer: Lorne Michaels
Screenwriter: Tina Fey
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, M.G.Films
Rating: PG-13 (Sexual Content|Language)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 30, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $86.1M
Runtime: 1h 37m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, Surround
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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