Mean Creek is a 2004 (2004 in film) independent film produced by Susan Johnson, Rick Rosenthal, and Hagai Shaham, written and directed by Jacob Aaron Estes and starring Rory Culkin, Trevor Morgan (Trevor Morgan (actor)), Carly Schroeder, Scott Mechlowicz, Ryan Kelley, and Josh Peck. The film concerns a group of teenagers and young adults who devise a plan to humiliate an overweight, troubled bully on a boating trip. The movie was filmed mostly in Clackamas County, Oregon, including the cities of Boring (Boring, OR), Sandy (Sandy, OR), and Estacada (Estacada, OR), though footage on the river itself was filmed in SE Washington (Washington (U.S. state)).

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004, and was later screened at the Cannes Film Festival that spring. The film was then given a limited release in major cities on August 20, 2004, mostly playing at art house theaters.