Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

North Shore High School, Evanston, IllinoisIt doesn't matter if you're the new kid or if you've been going to school with the same people since kindergarten: high school can be brutal. For many, th...

First-Person Voice-Over NarrationThe Voice in Her Head…Cady's position as not just the new kid at North Shore High School, but totally new to school, period, makes her a unique narrator. Her voic...

High School; SatireMean Girls isn't just one of the most quoted comedies of all time; it's also a scathing satire of the kill-or-be-killed culture created, maintained, and endured by teenage girls....

Mean Girls is called Mean Girls because The Shawshank Redemption was already taken.Just kidding. Mean Girls is filled to the brim with girls behaving badly; that's where the title comes from. Regin...

Maybe you noticed that the ending of Mean Girls isn't like the seventy-five minutes that come before it. The film's chugging along as a snarky, Juvenalian satire of teenage girlhood, and then wham!...

PG-13We're going to be short, sweet, and to-the-point with this one. Mean Girls is rated PG-13 because it's about teenagers. That means it has light to moderate amounts of swearing, bullying, party...