Mean Girls [Blu-ray]

Director: Mark Waters, Lorne Michaels

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/11/2019
UPC:	0032429318329
Original Release:	2004
Rating:	PG-13
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:36:00
Sales rank:	16,916

Special Features

Commentary by Director Mark Waters, Screenwriter & Actress Tina Fey and Producer Lorne Michaels; Featurettes: Only the Strong Survive/The Politics of Girl World/Plastic Fashion; Word Vomit (Blooper Reel); So Fetch ; Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Director Mark Waters and Screenwriter & Actress Tina Fey

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Lindsay Lohan	Cady Heron
Rachel McAdams	Regina George
Lacey Chabert	Gretchen Wieners
Amanda Seyfried	Karen Smith
Tina Fey	Ms. Norbury
Lizzy Caplan	Janis Ian
Daniel Franzese	Damian
Tim Meadows	Mr. Duvall
Amy Poehler	Mrs. George
Ana Gasteyer	Cady's Mom
Neil Flynn	Cady's Dad
Jonathan Bennett	Aaron Samuels
Rajiv Surendra	Kevin Gnapoor
Elana Shilling	Spelling Girl
Graham Kartna	Homeschooled Boy
Ely Henry	Homeschooled Boy
David Aherne	Homeschooled Boy
Ayo Agbonkpolo	African Warrior
Molly Shannon	Kristen Hadley
Jonathan Malen	Kristen's Boyfriend
Jeff Moser	`Farting' Guy
Miranda Edwards	Michigan Girl
Les Porter	Chemistry Teacher
Eve Crawford	English Teacher
Jack Newman	History Teacher
Michelyn Emelle	Music Teacher
Bathsheba Garnett	German Teacher
Ky Pham	Trang Pak
Danielle Nguyen	Sun Jin Dinh
Daniel DeSanto	Jason
Alisha Morrison	Lea Edwards
Chris Ploszczansky	Huge Guy
Dwayne Hill	Coach Carr
Diego Klattenhoff	Shane Oman
Jan Carunana	Emma Gerber
Wai Choy	Mathlete Tim Pak
Julia Chantrey	Amber D'Alessio
Jacky Chamberlain	Giselle Sgro
Olympia Lukis	Jessica Lopez
Stefanie Drummond	Bethany Byrd
Jessie Wright	Cady (age 5)
Tyson Fennell	Nfume
Stephan Dixon	Animal Dancer
Andreja Punkris	Animal Dancer
Noelle Boggio	Animal Dancer
Jordan Dawe	Animal Dancer
Alexandra Stapley	Taylor Wedell
Laura DeCarteret	Taylor Wedell's Mom
Nicole Crimi	Kylie George
Erin Thompson	Dawn Schweitzer
Dan Willmott	Mr. George
Michelle Hoffman	Kissing Girl
Valerie Casault	Kissing Girl
Sharron Matthews	Joan the Secretary
Jo Chim	Salesperson
Randi Lee Butcher	Skater Girl
Erin Jarvis	Skater Girl
Kaylen Christensen	Jock Girl
David Sazant	Marymount Captain
Clare Preuss	Caroline Krafft
Bruce Hunter	Mathlete Moderator
Megan Millington	Junior Plastic
Tara Shelley	Junior Plastic
Shannon Todd	Junior Plastic
Courtney Chase	Actor
Krysta Carter	Actor
Rolfe Kent	Composer
Molly Shanahan	Kristen Hadley
Chris Anton	Huge Guy
Jan Caruana	Emma Gerber
Marci Liroff	Actor

Technical Credits

Tina Fey

Lorne Michaels

Jill Messick

Rosalind Wiseman

Jennifer Guinier

Amanda Seyfried

Lizzy Caplan

Amy Poehler

Lindsay Lohan

Tim Meadows

Ana Gasteyer

Daniel Franzese

Neil Flynn

Tina Fey	Screenwriter
Lorne Michaels	Producer,Screenwriter
Jill Messick	Executive Producer,Executive Producer,Producer,Screenwriter
Marci Liroff	Casting
Rob Sanderson	Special Effects
John Stoneham Jr.	Stunts
Bruce Carwardine	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Rosalind Wiseman	Screenwriter
Patrick Cyccone Jr.	Sound Effects
Jennifer Guinier	Producer,Screenwriter
Amanda Seyfried	Screenwriter
Lizzy Caplan	Screenwriter
Amy Poehler	Screenwriter
Lindsay Lohan	Screenwriter
Tim Meadows	Screenwriter
Ana Gasteyer	Screenwriter
Daniel Franzese	Screenwriter
Neil Flynn	Screenwriter
Susan Shopmaker	Casting
Robin Cook	Casting

Editorial Reviews

This is the smartest, sassiest teen movie to come down the pike in a long while, and most of the credit belongs to Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey, who based on her script on a nonfiction book, Queen Bees and Wannabes. Fey's adaptation is set in a midwestern high school where transfer student Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan), previously homeschooled and blissfully unaware of the social conventions dictated by her peers, falls in with a small clique of girls known as "the Plastics." Led by spoiled, beautiful Regina George (Rachel McAdams), the Plastics live by their own rules and show nothing but disdain for their fellow students, a few of whom persuade Cady to undermine the catty in-group. Director Mark Waters -- whose brother Daniel directed the influential teen comedy Heathers -- gives Mean Girls a brisk pace with fast-moving sequences and inventive transitions that speed the action. He's also fortunate to have a terrific script from which to work: Fey writes tart dialogue and builds imaginative set pieces around some of the situations and character types described in Queen Bees. There isn't a high school graduate alive who won't recognize in Regina and her acolytes the stuck-up girls who cheerfully toyed with adoring boys and disdained female classmates who weren't as pretty or popular as they were. Canadian actress McAdams is absolutely spot-on in her performance as Regina and is well supported by Lacey Chabert and Amanda Seyfried as the other Plastics. Fey writes herself a juicy part as a recently divorced teacher who runs afoul of the clique, and her fellow SNL players Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler, and Ana Gasteyer get colorful supporting roles as well. But Lohan really dominates the film with her energetic portrayal of an innately kind young woman who yields to temptation and, temporarily at least, becomes a queen bee.