Mean Girls | |
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Directed by | Mark Waters |
Produced by | Lorne Michaels |
Screenplay by | Tina Fey |
Based on |
Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman |
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Music by | Rolfe Kent |
Cinematography | Daryn Okada |
Edited by | Wendy Greene Bricmont |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time
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97 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $17 million |
Box office | $129 million |
Mean Girls: Music from the Motion Picture | |
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Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
Released | September 21, 2004 |
Recorded | 2004 |
Genre |
Pop rock teen pop R&B punk rock Christmas dance-pop rap |
Length | 49:17 |
Label |
Rykodisc Bulletproof |
Producer | Various Artists |
Singles from Mean Girls: Music from the Motion Picture | |
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Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. The film is partially based on Rosalind Wiseman's 2002 non-fiction self-help book Queen Bees and Wannabes, which describes female high school social cliques and the damaging effects they can have on girls.
Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels produced the film; Tina Fey, screenwriter and co-star of the picture, was a long-term cast member and writer for SNL. Although set in Evanston, Illinois (a wealthy Chicago suburb), the film was mostly shot in Toronto, Canada. The film stars Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Lacey Chabert, Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Franzese, Jonathan Bennett and Amanda Seyfried (in her film debut), and features appearances from SNL cast members Tim Meadows, Ana Gasteyer and Amy Poehler. The film marks Lohan's second collaboration with director Waters, the first being Freaky Friday, released a year earlier.
The picture grossed $129 million worldwide and has developed a cult following.