While avoiding holiday shopping last weekend I happened across Mean Girls on TV. I hadn’t seen the movie since it was released in 2004, and I was reminded of how smart, funny and relevant the movie is, as well as just how far Lindsay Lohan has fallen in the last 8 years. Lohan plays Cady, a naive home-schooled teenager who is abruptly thrust into the treacherous world that is high school. Cady has to learn to navigate social cliques and is eventually befriended by The Plastics, a group of the school’s most popular and exclusive girls. As expected, catty jealousy over a boy ensues. Superficially, the movie is a teen movie and all that normally goes along with that genre. What makes this movie better than average is Tina Fey’s screenplay influenced by the book Queen Bees and Wannabes and a talented cast including Fey, Amy Poehler, Amanda Seyfried, Neil Flynn, Tim Meadows, Rachel McAdams, and of course Lohan, pre-criminal record.