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‘Mean Girl’: it’s witty, funny
Illustrating a serious issue facing all girls across the nation ‘Mean Girls’ will be released at Majestic cinema from December 3, 2004. 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. 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 l5-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.

“Mean Girls” is the story of Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan), a cultural blank slate when she first sets foot on the grounds of North Shore High School in a small town outside of Chicago, Illinois. After living in Africa, Cady, now a junior, has no idea how “wild” things can be in civilization until she crosses paths with one of the meanest species of all - the “Queen Bee,” who at this particular high school is the cool and calculating Regina George (Rachel McAdams).

But Cady doesn’t just cross paths with this Queen Bee; she really stings her when she falls for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett). Now Regina’s set to sting back by pretending to still like Aaron so he won’t go out with Cady, all the while pretending to be her friend.

With no choice but to use the same M.O. to stay in the game, the “Girl World” one-upmanship escalates until the entire school gets dragged into a first-class mean-fest. Surrounded by jocks, mathletes, flaky teachers and subcultures galore, Cady climbs up and slides down - the harrowing social ladder of junior year, and life in the jungle turns out to be cake compared to high school.

Paramount Pictures presents a Lome Michaels Production, “Mean Girls,” starring Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer and Tina Fey.

“I think that girls are ingenious in how they find ways to sabotage one another in these invisible, unseen, hurtful ways,” says Tina Fey. “What struck me most were the anecdotes of the girls that were interviewed for the book. Rosalind, rightfully, takes them very seriously, but in my opinion, they’re also very funny. I mean the way girls mess with each other is so clever and intricate, and probably very instinctive.”

“It was witty and funny and full of humor yet still had a kind of humanity to it that you could connect to,” the director Mark Waters recalls. “It wasn’t your average cookie-cutter high school script. Tina had created a universe of fleshed out character that you really care about, and the minute I read her screenplay I knew I had to do it”. The film is rated for sexual content, language and some teen partying.

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