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Mean Girls (2004)

Director: Mark Waters

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From Time Out London

A sweet-souled daughter of zoologists, 15-year-old Cady (Lohan) goes from a lifetime of home-tutoring in ‘the African bush’ to a high school in suburban Chicago. Once there, she immediately grasps that the pitiless laws of the jungle apply equally readily to the various sharp-toothed species of American teendom. A scowly artiste (Caplan) and a zinger-zapping gay guy (Franzese) adopt comely Cady as one of their own and, just for laughs, set her on an undercover mission to infiltrate the a consortium of high priestesses led by terrifying alpha girl Regina (McAdams). Tina Fey’s deft, precisely detailed script dramatises Rosalind Wiseman’s bestseller ‘Queen Bees and Wannabes’. Happily, Fey and Waters gently tweak the studios’ usual high-gloss caricature of adolescence and aim for acutely hilarious and surprisingly empathic sociology.

Author: JW 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out London Issue 1768: July 7-14, 2004

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  • elle said...
    Posted on Jul 27 2008 23:53 i love this movie. full of a great story line,
    it was so real life.
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Mean Girls

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Director: Mark Waters

Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Franzese

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 98 mins

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