Movies like Mean Girls
If Mean Girls's mix of illinois, female friendship and bullying stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Mean Girls's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Lady Bird
2017 · Directed by Greta Gerwig · 94 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, teenage girl, best friend · Also drama and comedy
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to…
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
2023 · Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig · 106 min7.1
Why you'll like itWith Rachel McAdams · Shares: female friendship, coming of age · Also comedy and drama
When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.
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Giant Little Ones
2019 · Directed by Keith Behrman · 93 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: bullying, coming of age, best friend
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
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Easy A
2010 · Directed by Will Gluck · 93 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, teen comedy, teenager
Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing.
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2015 · Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon · 105 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, teenager · Also drama and comedy
Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend.
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Back to the Future
1985 · Directed by Robert Zemeckis · 116 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: bullying, fish out of water, teenage life
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest.
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Big Hero 6
2014 · Directed by Don Hall · 102 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, best friend
A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
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It
2017 · Directed by Andy Muschietti · 135 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: bullying, coming of age
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
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The School for Good and Evil
2022 · Directed by Paul Feig · 149 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: teenager
Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle between good and evil.
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Mistress America
2015 · Directed by Noah Baumbach · 84 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: female friendship
A college freshman cures her disappointment and loneliness by allowing herself to be pulled into the wacky schemes of her future stepsister.