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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Garrison Keillor and Robert Altman do a very good job of showing the final day of the small radio show before the curtain is pulled down for good. However when the film leaves the story for subplots involving an angel or the corporate hatchet man, it losses the feel and warmth that is so integral to making the rest of the film work. The end result is a very good film that had it been handled a little different could have been great.
The film centers on an old time radio show that continues to broadcast in present day oblivious to the fact that time may well have past them by. The performers are like a large dysfunctional but loving family that on this night, the final night the show will be broadcast, say goodbye.
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