Lindsay Lohan is ready for her comeback. Netflix just announced that the infamous redhead will be starring in a new Christmas romantic comedy, where she plays a “newly engaged and spoiled hotel heiress” who gets amnesia after a skiing accident and “finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner” and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas.” LiLo fans have been waiting for her return to acting for years. In honor of the iconic actress, here are 5 of her best movies she’s starred in.
Released in 2004, “Mean Girls” will forever be “so FETCH.” The movie is one of the funniest comedies and stars Logan as the new girl Cady Heron who moves from Africa to the suburbs of Illinois. After having to eat her lunch in the bathroom she finds herself catapulted at the top of the high school food chain after joining “The Plastics” in an effort to take them down.
There are thousands of people still eating Oreo’s and peanut butter because they saw Lohan eat them in the 1998 film “The Parent Trap.” The film is a testament to Lohan’s acting abilities as she played both twins in the film. It was her first movie audition and first major role for Lohan, who had just turned 12 when the movie was released, per USA Today. With 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, the film is about long-lost twins Annie James and Hallie Parker who realize they are sisters at summer camp and come up with a plan to switch places so they can meet their parents, and eventually try to get them back together.
When Lindsay Logan and Jamie Lee Curtis teamed up for the 2003 comedy “Freaky Friday,” relationships between mothers and daughters everywhere got a little bit stronger. The film has 88% percent on Rotten Tomatoes and follows Curtis as a hardworking and at times serious Tess Coleman, and her daughter Anna, played by Lohan who don’t have the best relationship. After bickering in a restaurant, a waitress hands them a fortune cookie that makes the mother-daughter pair wake up the next morning trapped in each other‘s bodies.
Released in 2000, “Life-Size” starring Lohan and Tyra Banks is about a child named Stuart (Lohan) who is mourning the death of her mom. After using magic to try and resurrect her mom, a doll named Eva (Banks) enters a world she‘s never seen before. With a 48% on Rotten Tomatoes, fans still demanded a sequel. Unfortunately, Lohan was never a part of it.
Although the film only has 14% on Rotten Tomatoes, anyone who watched 2004 was inspired by her dramatic character “Lola” that might have also been a pathological liar. After Lola, a high school student is uprooted from her fashionable life in New York City to the suburbs of New Jersey, she is determined to come up with an elaborate plan to see her and her best friend‘s band Sidarthur’s farewell concert.
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