Teens aren't just manipulative tyrants. Only the teens in Thirteen are. Thanks to Catherine Hardwicke's direction, Thirteen moves at the pace of adolescence.
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01/30/04
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Thirteen (2003)
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Reviews Counted:142
Fresh:116
Rotten:26
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: An emotionally wrenching, not to mention terrifying, film about the perils of being a teenager.
Theatrical Release:Aug 20, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $4,500,238
Synopsis: THIRTEEN is Catherine Hardwicke's explosive portrait of teenage girls at their very worst. Mean, manipulative, conniving, and utterly out of control, these skinny, sexy, drug-addicted, 13-year-old... [More]
Starring: Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed, Jeremy Sisto
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
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01/24/04
...a cautionary tale, and as such it is unlikely to be heeded by teens anywhere and unlikely to be seen by the very parents who might learn the most from it.
01/15/04
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01/15/04
Quite simply, Evan Rachel Wood is fantastic as a youth gone wild. Stellar performances will make you overlook Thirteen's movie-of-the-week-ness.
01/14/04
As the girls descend into realms of the irreparable, you twist and turn in your seats, in terror for them and also in empathy for Wood's character.
01/12/04
'Es un claro ejemplo de que es posible hacer películas sobre adolescentes sin burlarse de ellos o del público. Esta es una película inteligente, con neuronas y muchas agallas'
01/09/04
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01/09/04
"Thirteen" is a difficult age.
12/21/03
The script was based on first-hand experience, and a lot of it rings chillingly true.
12/06/03
Catherine Hardwicke’s work is a dizzying wallop of a teen movie. . . . Thirteen is a handheld, bleached-out, rollercoaster reel of celluloid.
12/01/03
Hardwicke shows great instincts, using a frenetic documentary style to hammer home the brutal realities of modern teenage life, but rooting it in an unusually sensitive portrait of mother and daughter.
11/25/03
Wood's performance is revelatory, and she's matched by the always-terrific Hunter.
11/10/03
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10/26/03
Is Thirteen a movie about hysteric teen-age girls, or a movie about a teen-age culture of hysteria, or is it a movie in hysterics about teen-age culture?
10/17/03
It's a two-hour gut-wrench that just keeps tightening, and ends in a place that doesn't make you feel much better, like watching an after-school special gone horribly wrong.
10/07/03
Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed and Holly Hunter give hard-edged, brilliant performances in this gritty coming-of-age drama. A must see!
10/07/03
If you have teenagers, you will rush home from Thirteen and want to hug them tightly and never let them go.
10/05/03
One of the qualities that sets 'Thirteen' apart from the hundreds of other 'teen tragedy' stories that have been presented over the decades is its unwillingness to fall back on convenient labels and the usual soap operatics.
10/02/03
Breaks any and all preconceptions of what teenage life is supposed to be and projects the worst-case scenario.
10/01/03
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