Review: The Plastics hit the road with life lessons in Tina Fey's 'Mean Girls'
by Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
Dec 27, 2019
3 minutes
CLEVELAND - Without "Pretty in Pink, "Sixteen Candles" and 'The Breakfast Club," Tina Fey's "Mean Girls" would not exist. By comedic intention, Fey's droll dissection of the tribal doings in her lightly fictional amalgam of Evanston Township High School and New Trier walks many of the same streets as the great John Hughes films, probing the pursuit of popularity and the cruelty of Chicagoland cliques.
But whereas Hughes' films were amoral, patriarchal, nonprescriptive and fundamentally observational of the American teenager in its natural
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