Mean Girls (2004) movie poster

Mean Girls (2004)

"Watch your back."
ThumbScore
👍 86%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 75%
DramaComedy

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Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
PG-13
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.2/10 (9,346 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
84%
Metacritic
66

Cast

Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron · 70% avg
Rachel McAdams as Regina George · 73% avg
Lizzy Caplan as Janis Ian · 72% avg
Lacey Chabert as Gretchen Wieners · 71% avg
Amanda Seyfried as Karen Smith · 69% avg
Daniel Franzese as Damian
Jonathan Bennett as Aaron Samuels · 68% avg
Rajiv Surendra as Kevin Gnapoor

Is Mean Girls good?

Yes. 86% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 75%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#501 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#28 / 175 · 2004
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 9 · Mark Waters

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy written by Tina Fey and directed by Mark Waters. Lindsay Lohan stars as Cady Heron, a teenager who has been homeschooled in Africa by her zoologist parents and enters a public high school for the first time, navigating the treacherous social ecosystem of North Shore High. When Cady infiltrates the Plastics — the school's most popular clique led by the manipulative Regina George, played by Rachel McAdams — at the suggestion of her outcast friends Janis and Damian, her plan to destroy the group from within backfires as she gradually becomes the very thing she set out to undermine.

Tina Fey's screenplay, adapted from Rosalind Wiseman's nonfiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes about female social aggression, was one of the sharpest and most quotable comedies of its decade. The film's observations about adolescent social dynamics, particularly the ways girls weaponize social status and appearance, were insightful enough that educators and psychologists cited the film in discussions of bullying and relational aggression. Mean Girls earned $129 million worldwide on a $17 million budget and has only grown in cultural stature, spawning a Broadway musical and a 2024 musical film adaptation.

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