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Mean Girls - Wikipedia. Mean Girls is a 2. American teencomedy film directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. The film is partially based on Rosalind Wiseman's 2.

Queen Bees and Wannabes, which describes female high school social cliques and the damaging effects they can have on girls. Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels produced the film; Tina Fey, screenwriter and co- star of the picture, was a long- term cast member and writer for SNL. Although set in Evanston, Illinois (a wealthy Chicago suburb), the film was mostly shot in Toronto, Canada. The film stars Lindsay Lohan, Rachel Mc. Adams, Fey, Lacey Chabert, Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Franzese, Jonathan Bennett and Amanda Seyfried (in her film debut), and features appearances from SNL cast members Tim Meadows, Ana Gasteyer and Amy Poehler. The film marks Lohan's second collaboration with director Waters, the first being Freaky Friday (2. The picture grossed $1. Watch The Wizard Of Lies Megavideo here.

Mean Girls has developed a cult status in the years following its release. A made- for- television sequel, Mean Girls 2, premiered in 2. Sixteen- year- old homeschooled Cady Heron and her zoologist parents return to the United States after a 1.

Africa, settling down in Evanston, Illinois. Attending a public school for the first time, Cady meets new classmates Janis Ian and Damian Leigh. Watch Connected Streaming. The two educate Cady on the school's various cliques and warn her to avoid the most popular and infamous one, the "Plastics", who are led by queen bee Regina George and include rich but insecure Gretchen Wieners and airhead Karen Smith. The Plastics take an interest in Cady, and invite her to sit with them at lunch. Seeing that Cady is getting along with the Plastics, Janis hatches a plan of revenge against Regina for some past slight, using Cady as the infiltrator. Cady soon learns about Regina's "Burn Book", a journal filled with rumors, secrets, gossip, and insults about the other girls and some teachers at school. Despite this discovery, Cady decides to forgo Janis's scheme for ethical reasons.

Meanwhile, Cady begins to have a crush on Regina's ex- boyfriend, Aaron Samuels, whom a jealous Regina proceeds to steal back at a Halloween party in front of Cady. This spurs Cady to fully commit to Janis's plan to cut off Regina's "resources", which involve breaking Regina and Aaron up, tricking her into eating nutrition bars that actually make her gain weight, and turning Regina's fellow Plastics against her. In the process, Cady unwittingly remakes herself in Regina's image, becoming spiteful and superficial, and abandons Janis and Damian. When Regina is finally made aware of Cady's treachery, she retaliates by spreading the contents of her Burn Book all over the school, quickly inciting a massive brawl.

To avoid suspicion, Regina inserts a fake libel of herself in the book in order to blame Cady, Gretchen, and Karen, the only female students not mentioned in the book. Karen convinces Principal Duvall that they did not spread the book. Duvall soon quells the fighting, and gathers all the girls in the school in the gymnasium.

Math teacher Ms. Norbury, whom the Burn Book defamed as a drug dealer, makes the girls face the terrible way they all treat each other, confess their transgressions, and apologize to each other and the teachers. When Janis's turn comes, she defies Norbury and confesses her plan to destroy Regina with Cady's help, and openly mocks Regina with the support of the entire school. Pursued by an apologetic Cady, Regina storms out and is struck by a school bus, breaking her spine.

Without any friends, shunned by Aaron, and despised by the school, Cady takes full blame for the Burn Book and becomes an outcast. After she makes amends with Regina, Cady's guilt soon dissolves and she returns to her old personality. As part of her punishment for lying and failing Ms. Norbury's class, she joins the Mathletes in the state championship finals, and ends up winning the competition for her team after her opponent answers incorrectly. At the Spring Fling dance, Regina's new boyfriend, Shane Oman, is elected King, while Cady is elected Queen. Onstage, Cady declares that all her classmates are wonderful in their own way, breaks her plastic tiara, and distributes the pieces to some other girls.

She then makes amends with Janis and Damian, reconciles with Aaron, and reaches a truce with the Plastics. By the start of the new school year, the Plastics have disbanded. Regina has joined the lacrosse team to deal with her anger, Karen has become the school weather reporter (claiming earlier that her breasts can tell when it is raining), and Gretchen joins the "Cool Asians". Aaron graduates from high school and attends Northwestern University, Janis begins dating Mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, whom she initially despised, and Cady declares that she is now normal. A group of new "Junior Plastics" has arisen, and Cady imagines them being hit by a bus. Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron, the 1.

Rachel Mc. Adams as Regina George, the evil- turned- good original mean girl. Lacey Chabert as Gretchen Wieners, the insecure daughter of the founder of Toaster Strudel. Amanda Seyfried as Karen Smith, the airhead best friend of Regina and Gretchen. Lizzy Caplan as Janis Ian, Cady and Damien's best friend who hatched the plan to take down the Plastics, especially Regina. Jonathan Bennett as Aaron Samuels, Regina's ex- boyfriend, Cady's current boyfriend. Daniel Franzese as Damian Leigh, Janis and Cady's best friend who is flamboyant and musical. Tina Fey as Ms. Sharon Norbury, the school calculus teacher.

Tim Meadows as Principal Ron Duvall. Amy Poehler as June George, Regina's pushover mother. Ana Gasteyer as Betsy Heron, Cady's mom. Neil Flynn as Chip Heron, Cady's dad. Daniel De. Santo as Jason, Gretchen's cheating boyfriend. Rajiv Surendra as Kevin Gnapoor, the "hormonal mathletes president" turned "Janis's boyfriend"Diego Klattenhoff as Shane Oman, Regina's boyfriend.

Production[edit]Development[edit]Tina Fey read Rosalind Wiseman's Queen Bees and Wannabes and called Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels to suggest it could be turned into a film. Michaels contacted Paramount Pictures, who purchased the rights to the book. As the book is nonfiction, Fey wrote the plot from scratch, borrowing elements from her own high school experience.

Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. The film is partially based on Rosalind Wiseman's 2002 non-fiction.