Mean Girls

Theatrical Release Date: 2004 04 30 (USA)

UPC: 097361427249

Studio: Paramount

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Alcohol Consumption]

Summary: 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. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Awards: Best Young Actress – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Adapted Screenplay – Writers Guild of America

Features: Commentary by director Mark Waters,screenplay writer & actress Tina Fey, and producer Lorne Michaels
3 Featurettes:
Only the strong survive
The politics of girl world
Plastic fashion
Word vomit (blooper reel)
So fetch-deleted scenes with commentary by director Mark Waters and screenplay writer & actress Tina Fey
3 Interstitials
frenemies
new Girl
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Theatrical trailer HD

Mean Girls

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 04/14/2009

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DTHD null

Runtime: 96 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish,Portuguese

Tracie Cooper

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 clich?d 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. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Wai Choy  Actor 
Jonathan Malen  Actor 
Nicole Crimi  Actor 
Olympia Lukis  Actor 
Stefanie Drummond  Actor 
Lorne Michaels  Producer 
Rolfe Kent  Composer (Music Score) 
Louise Rosner  Executive Producer 
Mark S. Waters  Director 
Jill Sobel Messick  Executive Producer 
Tina Fey  Screenwriter 
Lindsay Lohan  Actor 
Rachel McAdams  Actor 
Tina Fey  Actor 
Tim Meadows  Actor 
Amy Poehler  Actor 
Ana Gasteyer  Actor 
Lacey Chabert  Actor 
Lizzy Caplan  Actor 
Daniel Franzese  Actor 
Neil Flynn  Actor 
Jonathan Bennett  Actor 
Amanda Seyfried  Actor 

Country: USA