Mean Girls (2004)

Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert
Director: Mark Waters
Genre: Teen Comedy
Rating: PG-13

Summary:

Mean Girls follows Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan), a teenage girl who moves from Africa to the U.S. and enrolls in a high school for the first time. Having been homeschooled by her scientist parents, Cady is unfamiliar with high school social structures. She quickly befriends Janice (Lizzy Caplan) and Damian (Daniel Franzese), who introduce her to the school's complex social hierarchy.

Cady becomes involved with the popular group known as The Plastics, led by the queen bee Regina George (Rachel McAdams). Regina is beautiful, manipulative, and cruel, and Cady begins to be drawn into her world, which includes playing mind games with others, especially Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett). As Cady grows more entangled in the Plastics' drama, she starts to lose sight of who she really is, adopting the same manipulative behavior she once despised.

The film explores themes of friendship, identity, and the consequences of bullying, all with a sharp, satirical edge. Cady eventually realizes that she has become just like the people she once judged, and she must find a way to fix the mess she’s created while navigating the social maze of high school.