Director: Mark Waters Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried and Lizzy Caplan.
Mean Girls is a coming-of-age comedy, about Cady Heron, a girl who has moved to Illinois with her parents. She has just started a new school, and soon becomes friends with a school outcast, Janis. Cady soon learns of 'The plastics' the most popular girls in school, and Janis comes up with a plan to get Regina George back, after the way she treat Janis, by using Cady. Cady goes along with the plan, learning all about the 'popular lifestyle'. Whilst she hangs around with them, Cady learns that being popular isn't a good thing, and understands that being friends with Janis is much better. The audience see Cady grow up, and watch her transform into who she is meant to be. The film had a huge opening weekend and achieved much success, making it a favourite even today. Mean girls even won some nominations and awards, which shows that as a coming-of-age film, it succeeded in attracting attention, and Waters accomplished his task of getting an audience to understand the dramas of teenage life.
Notes on the film:
Focuses on the struggle to fit in among different people-a common theme among coming-of-age films as this helps to show the audience how much the main character has grown up, changed and matured throughout the film when it comes to the end of the film.
The main character comes from a completely different part of the world-Waters has therefore prepared the audience for the difference in locations. The audience knows that it will be different, however, Cady doesn't, and is therefore shocked by the people attending her new school.
Mean Girls had a mostly teenage audience, however adults found it funny. Tina Frey said in an interview that for teenagers 'it's much too close to their real experiences'-This is common in many coming-of-age films, as the director has to make it as realistic as possible, so that it is believable, and so that audience can engage with the characters more.
Cady, the main character isn't very wealthy, again, often seen in these films.
Main character is manipulated in to doing things, however, this is the very thing which teaches her about other people.
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