Mean Girls 1 🎥 2004 Movie Info

Plot Summary

After being homeschooled her entire life and having spent the last twelve years in Africa, 16-year-old Cady Heron begins her first day at North Shore High School. She has trouble making friends and is put down by the teachers on her first day, although she does befriend outcasts Janis Ian and Damian Leigh, who explain the school’s various cliques to her, warning her about the “Plastics”, a trio of wealthy and mean girls consisting of ruthless queen bee Regina George, insecure gossiper Gretchen Wieners, and bubbly airhead Karen Smith. Regina, Gretchen, and Karen take a shine to Cady and unexpectedly invite her to join the Plastics. Upon realizing this, Janis hatches a plan to infiltrate the group and destroy Regina’s reputation.

Cady becomes infatuated with her classmate Aaron Samuels. Karen and Gretchen warn her that, as Regina’s ex-boyfriend, he is off-limits, though Regina assures Cady she does not care if Cady and Aaron date. Despite Janis’s insistence that Regina is “evil”, Cady comes to enjoy hanging out with the group, including writing insulting remarks about their classmates and teachers in a scrapbook called the “Burn Book.” However, at a Halloween house party, instead of talking to Aaron on Cady’s behalf, Regina kisses him in front of her and resumes their relationship. Feeling betrayed, an enraged Cady fully commits to Janis’s plan.

Over the following months, Cady, with Janis and Damian’s help, manages to trick Gretchen into revealing her secrets, break up Regina’s relationship with Aaron, and cause her to gain weight by giving her high-calorie snack “Kalteen Bars” under the pretense that they are diet food. After violating the Plastics’ dress code rules by wearing sweatpants on Monday, due to her weight gain, Regina is kicked out of the group, as Cady becomes the new “queen bee”. While Cady’s parents are out of town, she throws a house party, and drunkenly admits to Aaron that she does not actually need math tutoring, and he renounces her for being as manipulative as Regina.

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