It was a book that became a movie that became a phenomenon. Tackling high school cliques with an absurdist comedic edge, 2004’s Mean Girls stars Lindsay Lohan on her first day of high school as a young woman homeschooled up until that point. After making a couple of new outcast friends (Lizzy Caplan and Daniel Franzese), Cady (Lohan) is noticed by the popular mean girls (Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, and Amanda Seyfried) who invite her to join them.
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If you are looking for insanely wacky fun, do I have the movie for you. The unapologetically bizarre Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die stars Sam Rockwell as an unnamed man claiming to be from the future who holds a diner full of patrons hostage, with what may or may not be a bomb vest, demanding volunteers for a suicide mission to help him save the world. Along the way, neither director Gore Verbinski nor screenwriter Matthew Robinson will pull any punches as to why this world needs saving.
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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Muppet Show, the half-hour special brings the Muppets back to the Muppet Theater for sketches, musical numbers, and classic backstage antics. Special guest Sabrina Carpenter is on hand both on and off the stage as the Muppets raise the curtain, light the lights, and play the music. I’m open for as many of these as Disney wants to put out and as often as possible.
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Taking a few good-natured shots at the worst of the Star Wars films (Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones), Duck Dodgers (Jeff Bennett) comes up with an ingenuous way to stop a fleet of alien monsters about to attack the Earth by cloning an army of robotic versions of himself. For a Duck Dodgers plan, it’s an unqualified success. However, dealing with the rampaging robot ducks afterwards turns out to be an entirely new problem in need of a solution.
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Despite equal parts makeover and romcom, Sisterhood, Inc. is no She’s All That. After being ousted from the company she founded, and desperately in need of a project, Megan (Rachael Leigh Cook) recruits a board of life coaches (Rosa Gilmore, Steve Schirripa, Jackie Hoffman, and Leonidas Gulaptis) to fix the life of her screw-up younger sister Izzy (Daniella Monet).
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