MEAN GIRLS

Year: 2004
USA: Paramount Pictures
UK: UIP
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, Courtney Chase, Jonathan Malen, Jo Chim, Wai Choy, Nicole Crimi, Daniel DeSanto, Olympia Lukis,Ky Pham, Chris Ploszczansky, David Sazant, Elana Shilling, Rajiv Surendra
Director: Mark S Waters
Country: USA
USA: 98 mins
UK: 97 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for sexual content, language and some teen partying
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate language, sex and drugs references
USA Release Date: 30 April 2004
UK Release Date: 18 June 2004


Synopsis

Calling somebody else fat will not make you any thinner.
Calling somebody stupid will not make you any smarter.
And you've got to stop calling each other sluts and whores.
It just makes it all right for guys to call you that.

Math teacher Ms Norbury (Tina Fey) addressing a student assembly.

Raised in the African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) thinks she knows about "survival of the fittest." But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 15 year-old enters public high school for the first time and falls prey to the psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today.

Directed by Mark Waters (FREAKY FRIDAY), from a screenplay by Emmy winner Tina Fey (SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE), MEAN GIRLS is a fictional comedy based on Rosalind Wiseman's New York Times bestseller, Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence, which Time praised as "a chilling account of the life our girls navigate in their school lunchrooms and hallways."