How ‘Mean Girls’ Went From a Teen Movie to a Pop Culture Mainstay

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.Sitting in that movie theater, watching my childhood hero, The Parent Trap’s , navigating through the twisted and complex world of high school friendships was a revelation.

Sure the movie, written by a not-yet-super-famous Tina Fey, was hilarious, the outfits were amazing, and the plot entertaining, but what struck me the most in my 14-year-old mind was how real the movie felt, how it seemed to have been made just for me.Obviously, I was far from alone.

In the nearly 20 (gulp) years since the film was released in April 2004, it has become a behemoth, a now-classic ode to Millennial girlhood.

It inspired a musical, , released earlier this month, and many, many memes.To celebrate the anniversary of the film’s release, author and entertainment journalist Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, whose book about was a New York Times bestseller, has turned her expertise to Mean Girls.