Mean Girls

Finally watched this gem of high school films.

This was before Lindsay Lohan went off the rails and she was still the sweetheart actress with freckles. It was also before anyone knew who Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried are.

The story is pretty simple. New girl comes to high school after having lived in Africa for over a decade and having been home schooled. She is just about to learn the basic rules of high school life when she gets adopted into the group referred to as the 'plastics' (which is exactly what it sounds like). She is supposed to pretend to be friends with them and report back to a couple of students on the margins of high school life but bit by bit becomes just like the pretty air heads.

Of course, everything comes to blows eventually but she makes amends and gives a pretty speech and gets the boy in the end.

Funny and full of quotable lines.

6/10

Gone

Two years ago, Jill was kidnapped from her home and dumped into a hole in the middle of a huge forest near Portland, OR. Law enforcement tried for all of two weeks to find said hole where, according to Jill, several skeletons are buried. They start suspecting that the girl made it all up and have her institutionalized.

Jill now lives with her sister Molly, the only family she has anymore. When she comes home one morning after a night shift at the restaurant she works in Molly is gone and Jill becomes immediately convinced that her kidnapper has come back to finish her off.

When she goes to the police to alert them, the do not believe her yet again and don't move a finger to find Molly, who is a recovering alcoholic and they are convinced she will turn up on her own account. Jill sets out to find her and their kidnapper by herself.

At the same time, she is being hunted because she carries a gun, and having been a mental patient she lost the right to do so (even in gun crazy Merica), and has threatened someone with it to gather information. So the film is the police hunting Jill hunting the kidnapper and recovering her sister.

Actually quite entertaining.

6/10