Thirteen (2002)
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 148
Fresh: 121 | Rotten: 27
An emotionally wrenching, not to mention terrifying, film about the perils of being a teenager.
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 4
An emotionally wrenching, not to mention terrifying, film about the perils of being a teenager.
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Prolific production designer and art director Catherine Hardwicke makes her directorial debut with the coming-of-age drama Thirteen. Los Angeles teenager and overachiever Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) is an excellent student in her seventh grade class and gets along well with her mother, Melanie (Holly Hunter). She fears that she's not cool enough to be friends with Evie (Nikki Reed), the most popular girl in school. Fueled with genuine adolescent energy, Tracy follows Evie's lead into the harsh
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Cast
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Holly Hunter
Melanie -
Evan Rachel Wood
Tracy -
Nikki Reed
Evie Zamora -
Jeremy Sisto
Brady -
Brady Corbet
Mason -
Deborah Kara Unger
Brooke -
Kip Pardue
Luke -
Sarah Clarke
Birdie -
D.W. Moffett
Travis -
Vanessa Hudgens
Noel -
Jenicka Carey
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All Critics (162) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (124) | Rotten (29) | DVD (31)
Hunter and Reed are excellent, but it's the scarily talented 15-year-old Wood whose scorching, star-making performance drives Thirteen.
It's a Kids for a new generation of the too-young -to-be-this -messed up.
Although it borders on exploitation in several places, Thirteen packs an emotional wallop.
It's a pretentious piece of Valley Girl vileness masquerading as social commentary.
You don't necessarily have to be a parent to get the shivers from Hardwicke's detailed delineation of one young girl's shocking descent from perfect daughter/honor student to incorrigible rebel/disruptive influence.
A raw, disturbing look at a world adults would much rather not know about.
Explicit peer pressure story for older teens.
A horror tale about a subculture in which impressionable girls drift under group pressure into drugs, piercing, self-mutilation, anorexia and shoplifting
A rather basic tale about the perils of going along with the in-crowd and the extremes to which teenagers will act out for attention.
a sober-sided Freaky Friday -- a chance to look through the eyes of a child
What power does a teenage girl have?
Al menos una película se las arregla para decir que el "american way of life" (...) esconde terribles tragedias domésticas.
Audience Reviews for Thirteen
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- Melanie: I love you and your brother more than anything in the world. I would die for you, but I won't leave you alone right now.
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- Melanie: I want you here with me. You're my heart. I'll make it right.
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The story is familiar, one that everyone can relate to. It's about Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood), a painfully impressionable teen who desperately wants to fit in with the 'cool' crowd, who ironically are anything but. The 'cool' kids are repugnantly crass - truly revolting people. Tracy unfortunately thinks otherwise, becoming best friends with the utterly amoral prize bitch Evie (Nikki Reed). Her influence upon Tracy is immediate, and their activities together soon escalate; Tracy quickly becomes a scheming, stupid and cruel little bitch, too. Her descent is exasperating to watch, partly through how powerless Tracy's suffering mother (Holly Hunter) is.
The performances are remarkably natural, they really are. It will never age in this respect, peak realism is shown here. Hunter and Wood have scenes of intense emotion, the kind of emotion so desperately strong that it transcends everything. The excitable exchanges between Wood and Reed are also commendable for their credibility. The film could be a real eye-opener to teens that are experiencing similar situations. The film would show them that Tracy isn't cool or radical; she's just another kid in the midst of a predictable, cringe-worthy cycle that has been experienced by millions from all generations.
'Thirteen' will have you wanting to commit acts of extreme violence. If you can restrain your temperament throughout the many scenes of vast obnoxiousness, gross injustice and scores of vulgar, idiotic characters - I salute you. All of this, however, is testament to the power of the film. It's an unpleasant watch, but the provocation it causes is interesting, I've written this review faster than usual!