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2004 · comedy

Mean Girls

Directed by Mark Waters1h 37m2004
ElsewhereIMDb7.1485kRT84%Metacritic66TMDB7.29k
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • intimate
  • funny
Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.

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Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

Our read · Mean Girls (2004) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.

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You want razor-sharp teen comedy with quotable lines and surprising heart.

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliation

Skip it tonightHigh-school mean-girl cruelty triggers you or feels too dated.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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