Mean Girls remains the queen bee at the domestic box office. The new movie musical is based on the 2018 Broadway show, which is based on the 2004 teen comedy, which is based on the 2002 nonfiction book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman. It follows transfer student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) whose first year in an American high school sees her drawn into a plot to take down the cruel queen bee Regina George (Renée Rapp). The screenplay by original screenwriter Tina Fey is interspersed with songs by composer Jeff Richmond and lyricist Nell Benjamin.

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