Mean Girls (2004)

Starring a pre-meltdown Lindsay Lohan as well as teenaged Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried we have a high school boner comedy from the female perspective.  Cady/Caddy is a new student trying to fit in her new high school.  She befriends a group of popular pretty girls nicknamed the Plastics, but really she doesn't fit in there either and ends up trying to sabotage their friendships from the inside.

Screenplay by and starring Tina Fey, its a Saturday Night Live movie produced by Lorne Michaels and featuring a number of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players.  Tina Fey as Ms. Norbury has a large role.  The humor is has light but sharp touch.

While it rides completely on stereotypes of high school (nerdy Asians, blond cheerleaders, dumb jocks, token blacks) 15 years later it doesn't age well.  For some of its timeless  DNA, see Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Chicago high school), Election (teacher/student relations) and Napoleon Dynamite (talent show).

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