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Mean Girls (2004)

MPAA Rating: PG-13
Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum | May 14, 2004

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Cady learns a valuable lesson and sends a positive message: be yourself. Some of the outfits are a little risqué, and there's a party scene with underage drinking, but all in all it's a movie mothers and daughters can enjoy together.—L.S. — A.W.

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Cady learns a valuable lesson and sends a positive message: be yourself. Some of the outfits are a little risqué, and there's a party scene with underage drinking, but all in all it's a movie mothers and daughters can enjoy together.—L.S.

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Details Release Date: Apr 30, 2004; Rated: PG-13; Length: 97 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Lacey Chabert, Tina Fey, Lindsay Lohan and Tim Meadows; Distributor: Paramount Pictures; More

It's a sweet-tart comedy about female bitchiness in the high school jungle. And as written by SNL jungle queen Tina Fey, it's also a harbinger of hope for feminist comedies with grit. Lindsay Lohan and Fey star.

Originally posted May 14, 2004 Published in issue #765 May 14, 2004 Order article reprints
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