Film Review - Mean Girls
The celebrated 2004 high school comedy gets a contemporary musical makeover with mixed results
Mean Girls has followed an almost identical popularity cycle to The Color Purple. It was first a non-fiction parenting book (entitled Queen Bees and Wannabes, by Rosalind Wiseman), became a film (in 2004, written by Tina Fey and directed by Mark Waters), then a stage musical, and now Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr’s film of the stag…
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