Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.October 3 marks the newly-minted holiday Mean Girls Day, and as such, we think it’s time to celebrate.Mean Girls, of course, won great reviews and became a major hit when it debuted back in 2004.
The film follows the arrival of wide-eyed innocent Cady (Lindsay Lohan) into an upper-middle-class high school, and the vicious fellow females she encounters from the outset.
The Plastics, led by the uber-nasty Regina (Rachel McAdams), dominate student life with their mixture of snark, beauty and cunning manipulation.