Mean Girls

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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 ...
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Overview

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.
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Editorial Reviews

Barnes & Noble - Ed Hulse
This is the smartest, sassiest teen movie to come down the pike in a long while, and most of the credit belongs to Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey, who based on her script on a nonfiction book, Queen Bees and Wannabes. Fey's adaptation is set in a midwestern high school where transfer student Cady Heron Lindsay Lohan, previously homeschooled and blissfully unaware of the social conventions dictated by her peers, falls in with a small clique of girls known as "the Plastics." Led by spoiled, beautiful Regina George Rachel McAdams, the Plastics live by their own rules and show nothing but disdain for their fellow students, a few of whom persuade Cady to undermine the catty in-group. Director Mark Waters -- whose brother Daniel directed the influential teen comedy Heathers -- gives Mean Girls a brisk pace with fast-moving sequences and inventive transitions that speed the action. He's also fortunate to have a terrific script from which to work: Fey writes tart dialogue and builds imaginative set pieces around some of the situations and character types described in Queen Bees. There isn't a high school graduate alive who won't recognize in Regina and her acolytes the stuck-up girls who cheerfully toyed with adoring boys and disdained female classmates who weren't as pretty or popular as they were. Canadian actress McAdams is absolutely spot-on in her performance as Regina and is well supported by Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried as the other Plastics. Fey writes herself a juicy part as a recently divorced teacher who runs afoul of the clique, and her fellow SNL players Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler, and Ana Gasteyer get colorful supporting roles as well. But Lohan really dominates the film with her energetic portrayal of an innately kind young woman who yields to temptation and, temporarily at least, becomes a queen bee.
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Based on Rosalind Wiseman's nonfiction best-seller Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence, Mean Girls is a success in that it delves into one of the lesser exploited aspects of teen comedy -- the innermost dynamics of backstabbing among adolescent girls. Complemented by a slew of SNL regulars and alumni -- particularly Amy Poehler's turn as a desperately eager-to-please, aging, and augmented trophy wife of a mother -- the film is best when at its bitchiest. To its credit, protagonist Cady (Lindsay Lohan), whose only previous educational experience was provided by her zoologist parents in the wilds of Africa, is not the pure-hearted heroine of teen flicks past. Her agenda of sabotaging the Plastics (the school's most simultaneously feared and envied clique, led with aplomb by "professional life-ruiner" Regina George [Rachel McAdams]) from the inside may have begun with noble intentions, but when her efforts land her the head position in the "army of skanks" she had sought to dismantle, she is hardly reluctant to assume the role, at least initially. However, for pegging the darker subtleties of high school so well -- the lunchroom caste system, the mechanics of manipulation, the evolution of a rumor, transitions of power, and the ever-present threat of weight gain, to name a few -- Mean Girls loses a certain amount of punch in its ham-fisted later half, which involves an excruciatingly out-of-place trust fall and a clichéd speech (at the Spring Fling, no less) in front of the entire student body. Yet, despite several cheesy epiphanies, Mean Girls is a self-aware, solid effort at dissecting the superficialities of high-school life, particularly for post-Columbine times. Besides, there's always Heathers.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 1/1/2013
  • UPC: 883929302475
  • Original Release: 2004
  • Source: Paramount Catalog
  • Region Code: 1
  • Format: DVD
  • Sales rank: 648

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Lindsay Lohan Cady Heron
Rachel McAdams Regina George
Tina Fey Ms. Norbury
Tim Meadows Mr. Duvall
Amy Poehler Mrs. George
Ana Gasteyer Betsy Heron
Lacey Chabert Gretchen Weiners
Lizzy Caplan Janis Ian
Daniel Franzese Damian
Neil Flynn Chip Heron
Jonathan Bennett Aaron
Amanda Seyfried Karen Smith
Wai Choy Tim Pak
Nicole Crimi Kylie George
Stefanie Drummond Bethany
Olympia Lukis Jessica Lopez
Jonathan Malen Peter Haldi
Technical Credits
Mark S. Waters Director
Wendy Greene Bricmont Editor
Bruce Carwardine Sound/Sound Designer
Robin D. Cook Casting
Amanda Demme Musical Direction/Supervision
Tina Fey Screenwriter
Mary Jane Fort Costumes/Costume Designer
Brandt Gordon Art Director
Jennifer Guinier Associate Producer
Rolfe Kent Score Composer
Marci Liroff Casting
Jill Sobel Messick Executive Producer
Lorne Michaels Producer
Daryn Okada Cinematographer
Louise Rosner Co-producer, Executive Producer
Andrew Shea Asst. Director
Susan Shopmaker Casting
Cary White Production Designer
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Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. First Day of School
2. The Plastics
3. Entering Girl World
4. The Burn Book
5. Costume Party
6. Sabotage
7. Winter Talent Show
8. Gretchen Cracks
9. Word Vomit
10. A Pusher
11. The New Queen Bee
12. Actual Vomit
13. Regina's Revenge
14. Jungle Madness
15. Attitude Makeover
16. Suck Out the Poison
17. Prom Night
18. Spring Fling Queen
19. Girl World at Peace
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Menu

Side #1 --
   Play
   Set Up
      Audio Options: English 5.1 Surround
      Audio Options: English Dolby Surround
      Audio Options: Français
      Commentary by Director Mark Waters, Screenwriter & Actress Tina Fey and Producer Lorne Michaels
      Subtitle Options: English
      Subtitle Options: Español
      Subtitle Options: None
   Special Features
      Commentary by Director Mark Waters, Screenwriter & Actress Tina Fey and Producer Lorne Michaels
      Featurettes
         Only the Strong Survive
         The Politics of Girl World
         Plastic Fashion
         Play All
      Word Vomit
      So Fetch - Deleted Scenes
         Damian Rigs Table
         112, Excellent!
         Mom's Underwear
         Shoe Shopping
         Tonight I'll Like It
         Eaten by Cannibals
         Regina in Bed
         Norbury's Car Explodes
         Cady & Regina in the Bathroom
         Play All
         Commentary By: Director Mark Waters and Screenwriter & Actress Tina Fey - On
         Commentary By: Director Mark Waters and Screenwriter & Actress Tina Fey - Off
      Interstitials
         Frenemies
         New Girl
         P.S.A.
         Play All
      Theatrical Trailer
      Previews
   Scene Selection
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  • Posted June 27, 2011

    My Favorites

    I've seen Lindsay Lohan in The Parent Trap Freaky Friday and Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen.


    I've seen Tina Fey and Amy Phoehler in Baby Mama

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  • Posted January 2, 2011

    more from this reviewer

    I Also Recommend:

    Sydney White
    Bring It On

    mean girls

    Great :D

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    thats so fetch!

    wow mean girls sorta like Heathers and Jawbreakers but better with Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams the movie is a chick flick but cool for guys to watch i really liked mean girls i even own the dvd!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    I Also Recommend:

    Not Another Teen Movie

    So Fetch!

    "Mean Girls" is by far my all time favorite movie. It is funny, the sory line is great, and it has an amazing cast. Lindsay Lohan plays Cady, a transfer student from Africa who moves to an American high school. She portrays this act perfectly. She goes from a fashion victim to a fashionista. All the actors play their parts well. It is just like every high school. There is drama and Comedy. It will surely bring you back to your awkward high school years. I have seen this movie so many times that I know every line by heart. It is such an amazing movie. You will find yourself relating to characters, hating the mean girl, and even loving the "cute guy" Aaron Samuels. It will be your favorite movie too! So, go to your local movie store and pick up a copy of "Mean Girls" now!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    the best movie ever, it rocked hard

    i thought this movie was the s***! i like regina and cady. i also liked it when cady made her fat, and when regina got hit by that bus and when janice cut hole through her whife-beater and every girl started doing it. but this movie shows who your real friends are, and it shows how far people will go just to fit into the "it crowd" it rocked hard man. I watched it 540 times counting. This should mget an oscar. If you wanna see sex, dramma, and comedy. Then this is the movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!also my favorite character was gretchen, she was just too fetch, also my favorite part was when the dog kept biting on regina's mom nipples!! i LOL'd!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    TEEN REVOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    This is my favorite movie! Cady is so nice, and I almost cry when she reaches her "peak of mean" as my friend says. Regina is so mean, you wanna jump in the screen and PUNCH her!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Very Funny

    It was a great movie and Tina Fey did a great job writing the script!!! Everyone in the movie was great, they were Absolutely Hilarious!!!! It is a great movie for everyone to enjoy!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Mean Girls

    Mean Girls was an excellent movie! Funny too! I would come home from school and watch this movie every day.I really recommend this movie because it teaches a lesson on just being who you are and not to get influenced by others,unless of course it is for the right thing.Four stars all the way:)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    For it's genre this movie deserves 5 stars!

    This movie is not only hilarious but there are snippets here and there that are so true to life. Great movie for girls AND boys to delve into the teenage world of girls girls girls~

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    They are fech

    A good movie on how high school is in some schools.It is also one of the funnest movies I have ever seen. Those that don't like this miovie need a sense of humor.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Mean Girls

    I don't think these girls were very kind. Gretchen was too fetch and it made me uncomfortable when i watched this movie. Regina was very cruel and I cried when she got pushed in front of the bus. Cady was swell but i think she shouldn't have stopped eating after the movie was filmed. Although she is mean, I'll send her some food.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Mean Girls

    This movie is very funny for girls mainly between 12-20. I really enjoyed it even more the second and third times I watched it. Rachel McAdams (though not as famous when she made this movie) who plays Regina George, is very funny. Once you've seen Rachel's other more serious roles, it is very humorous to see her 'Preppy'. Lohan also does a very good job in this movie, which makes up for her performance in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. Overall this movie is very humorous and gives an insight of what truely goes on in modern day highschool.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Totally Not Fetch

    This movie had a stupid meaning for high school. I mean- Girls aren't always like that- they insult girls everywhere. People who actuallly like this movie, they definately need to get taste in GOOD movies. So DON"T BUY THIS!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    LAUGH OUT LOUD HILLARIOUS

    i love the sex-craved coach car. he was so fetch. "don't have sex because if you do, you will get pregnant...and DIE!" "you will get a lot of urges. you'll wanna take off your clothes, and touch eachother, but if you do touch eachother, you will get chlymitia...and DIE!" if you are at all sane and those lines sound funny, you'll love this movie.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Mean Girls was a very funny movie!

    Mean girls was one of the best funny movies i have ever seen. It seems like in every sence there would be something really funny. All of my friends loved the movie. I also really loved the acters in this movie. They did a very excellent in the movie. When i frist saw the movie Mean Girls i was laughing through the whole movie. I loved how they had the burn book, where they would write nasty things about all they girls in their grade. My favorite part in the movie is when Cady played by Lindsey Lohan, trys to ruin one of the meaniest girls in the school life. This movie is one of the best funny chich flicks i seen yet. I watch this movie almost every week and I still have not gotten sick of this movie. I would tell anyone who likes funny chick flicks to watch this movie. It was GREAT movie!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    THat is soo fetch!

    THIS MOVIE WAS AWESOME! IT is one of the best teen movies ever! No, it is the best!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Fantastic!

    When my friends brought this movie to my house I thought, "great another stupid teen film". However, when it was over I was amazed. Not since the movie Heathers was I as impressed with a film about high school. If you have ever dealt with evil teeanage girls, or if you were one, this is the movie for you.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    **Hilarious

    Tina Fey is a brilliant writer for this movie. She needs to make more movies like Mean Girls! I love her on SNL, and I wished she wasn't leaving. I hope her new show on NBC does good. The greatest line from the movie is what the sex ed teacher says. Mean Girls is such a great movie!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    AwEsOmE!!!

    The movie was great!!! I love actresses like Lindsay she did a fantasic job as all the others did too.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    This movie is so awesome!!!

    This movie is hilarious and I think Lindsay Lohan did a GREAT job!!!! Tina Fey is a great actress as well! This movie is totally fetch!

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