At a Glance

In this survival-of-the-fittest teen comedy, high school is a dangerous jungle seething with teenagers who prey on each other like wild animals. Here, the Plastics are the most popular girls in school. They wrote the rule book on Girl World, like always wearing pink on Tuesdays. They are just plain mean... When pretty new girl Cady arrives in school, the first thing they do is make fun of her. Then they try to win her over. Cady is torn between social cliques. She befriends the punky rebels Janis and Damian, but the guy Cady wants to date is friends with the Plastics. Getting resourceful she plans to please everyone. But as the two groups hate each other trying to fit in Cady jumps through hoops for the Plastics and becomes a mean girl in the process.