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Summary: Read the reviews before you take your daughter to see this!
Review: I didn't and I wish I did. This movie should be called "25" instead of Thirteen. Even with the new, bold, lewd, crude and nasty generation of teenagers, I think this movie stretched it a bit. I was uncomfortable throughout most of the movie sitting with my 13-year old and I wish I would have previewed it first because I think, even for my 13-year old, this movie was too much and went too far, and I think she thought so too.
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Summary: Lame, unrealistic, and redundant
Review: Wake up people. This is nothing new. The gimmick here is that this film was written by a 13 year old (oooooooh). Billed as a POV of real 13 year olds, this film is simply exploitive garbage. If 13 year olds actually act like this, then you should be afraid, but alas, they don't. Nikki Reed does, however, have Hollywood connections, one of the reasons why this film was made. If you want to see the real lives of 13 year old hollywood brats sleeping around and cutting themselves with their idiot friends, then knock yourself out. Larry Clark would be proud. PS: Is the morale here that if you act like Nikki Reed you get your very own movie? I know, that was lame.
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Summary: TEENAGE ANGST
Review: There is no doubt that THIRTEEN has created a blur of hype and controversy even before it's official release date. It is often described as innovative while others argue that it's unrealistic and possessing similar quality as an after-school special. Despite your opinions this film is well worth watching. THIRTEEN follows the misadventures of Tracy, a thirteen-year-old girl who is desperate to join the popular crowd at school. In her quest she engages in drinking and drug abuse along with shoplifting, cutting, and casual sex. Tracy's mother (Helen Hunt) is adamant in helping her daughter stay clear of these influences but she is only marginally successful. THIRTEEN does a marvelous job in portraying the turbulence of a mother-daughter relationship in junior high school. Though not every daughter will go to the extremes as Tracy did, it will do parents justice to see what their teenage children are up against. Don't believe that thirteen-year-olds are too young to participate in these types of activities. This is a realistic portrayal of the obstacles that young girls and boys often face. Watching this film made me relive painful memories of my own teenage years. This film does contain certain aspects of a shock value that may be displeasing to some. I witnessed several individuals leaving the theatre in disgust at these scenes. But if you're going to see this movie just for this reason, you may be more satisfied in watching KIDS (1995) that will certainly leave you with a sick feeling in your stomach.
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Summary: A movie that everyone should see
Review: The movie Thirteen is definitely the best movie I've ever seen. Everyone in this movie did an amazing job acting it, especially Nikki Reed, Evan Rachel Wood and Holly Hunter. In the movie Tracy starts off as an innocent girl who gets good grades and has a good relationship with her mom. But she wants more excitement in her life so she becomes friends with Evie(Nikki Reed). Evie has a bad home life and really wants Tracy's life. They have an amazing friendship even though Evie and Tracy do bad things together, like wearing slutty clothes, making out with older guys, doing drugs, and stealing. A few scenes after the girls are snorting coke you find out that they are only in 7th grade. This was shocking to me but it was also really honest. This what really happens. It was also Nikki Reed's real story, and she co-wrote it. This is the most powerful movie I have ever seen. At the end of the movie everyone was crying and hugging each other. This movie makes you want to be a better person.
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Summary: The best movie ever everyone who is 12-16 should see this
Review: The movie Thirteen couldn't be a better movie. It is really the perfect movie. The acting is really, really, really good. Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, and Nikki Reed were all soooo good. They should all get Oscars for their performances. Tracy's brother, Brooke, and Tracy's mother's boyfriend all gave really good performances too. The directing in this movie also was amazing. It was probably the most powerful movie I have ever seen. This movie is really really honest about how people act toward each other. In the beginning Tracy and Evie had an amazing friendship, despite the fact that they dressed and acted liked sluts, did drugs, and stole things. It was shocking how much stuff they did when later you found out that they were in 7th grade. Tracy's relationship with her mom changed so much in this movie, too. In the end when Evie beytrays Tracy and her mom helps her everyone at the movie was crying and hugging each other. It didn't have a specific ending, but it was still so great. It made you seriously feel like being a better person. If you are a parent you will probably be really scared when you see it but you should still see it. All teens should see it. Nikki Reed(who plays Evie) wrote it and this is a true story of her life and many other people are going through it, too.
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Summary: Gripping
Review: This fantastic film takes an unflinching look at the rocky transition and eventual downfall of a teenager who befriends the wrong crowd. If only it was playing in more theaters!
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Summary: Impressive and emotionally engaging portrait of two teens
Review: THIRTEEN is one of the more believable and emotionally involving films about young teens that I have ever seen. This is by no means a movie about Every-Teen, but about two very specific teens, and is therefore not intended as a generalized commentary on "youth today" or the plight of the young in today's world. It is the story of Tracy, a young girl starting seventh grade. She is immediately attracted to the charismatic and attractive Evie, whom she instantly attempts to emulate. Through misadventures they are thrown together, and they manage to get themselves in a spiraling gyre of self-destruction that reaches its apex near the end of the film. The situations they get sucked into or perpetuate are convincing, realistic, and powerful. This is very definitely not a "feel good" movie. It is not light entertainment. You won't walk out wishing you were young and gay once more. But it will provide one of the more horrific visions of teen life to hit the silver screen in a long, long while. The acting is nothing short of amazing, especially given the ages of the two main characters. Tracy is played compellingly by Evan Rachel Wood and Evie by Nikki Reed, who is also credited with director Catherine Hardwicke as the screenwriter, the story being based upon some of her own experiences as a 13-year-old (she is now 15). You really don't have to cut either of these actresses any slack as child actors. Despite her age, Wood is a veteran of TV and film, and does a tremendous job carrying the main action of the film. Reed is a film newcomer, but her performance is impressive for someone of her age, even if she had had experience. Holly Hunter is as superb as always as Tracy's overmatched and inept but nonetheless cool and loving mother (I'm sure every woman would love to posses her amazing looks at age 45!). This film in no way tries to glamorize the travails the teens go through. Despite their popularity at school and with their peers, you wince in nearly every scene in the film. Very early on one easily sees that they are not having a good time, that despite their social conquests, they are profoundly unhappy. Instead, one recognizes quickly that these are two terrifically hurt girls, and whether either or both of them will find personal healing is one of the central questions of the film.
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Summary: Destined for the Lifetime channel... men are to blame!
Review: Much has been said about the fact that the script was co-written by a 13-year-old girl and a production designer. That much is obvious from watching the movie. Reed is every bit as good an actress as a writer, but she's young and attractive, and in Hollywood, that's an adequate substitute for talent. The script is nothing but a string of tired clichés punctuated by awful dialog which often seems improvised. Screaming substitutes for character and music videos substitute for story. Every point is driven home with a sledge hammer, which, come to think of it, might be necessary since Holly Hunter plays the dumbest, most clueless mother to ever draw breath. Leave out the incessant profanity and this would play well on Lifetime--all the adult men are complete jerks, and largely to blame for all the female's problems. The constantly swimming, shaking, tilting, zooming, bouncing camera work becomes nauseating after about 30 seconds, and never lets up, once more attempting to substitute for the film's shortcomings. Much like "Boy's Don't Cry," one good performance, this one by Evan Rachel Wood, is confused with making a good film and the auteur ends up with the credit. She will no doubt be rewarded with a $20 million studio romantic comedy. Then all she needs is a writer, director, cinematographer, and some actors.
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Summary: A True Look a Teenagers.
Review: Entering High School for the first time is a new and scary feeling. New friends new place. and most of all what's included. Drugs,Sex,Trouble and more. Thriteen tells the story of a a girl who is retrevied into all of this, and trys anything to look or become popular. Trouble unsues when she goes to far with the sex stealing and drugs, even trying to look better, by weight. So what does this story tell, that this could happen to anyone, and Parents who think this couldn't happen to there kid are in denial because this is what true life is about when teenagers feel pressured, and want more to look or becoem popular. I'd reccomend any parent or teenager to see this movie it was excellenty acted and shows what becomes of us when we want more out of our lives, and the damage it does.
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Summary: Absolutely brilliant...
Review: After about four of my friends told me that THIRTEEN was one of the best movies ever, I decided to check it out. The opening scene is a little strange - it's Tracey and her friend Evie sitting on Tracey's bed and they're repeadetly hitting/punching each other, because they're high and they can't feel anything. After that it goes back four months prior to the event, and Tracey's story starts to unfold. Tracey lives in a very unstable house: her mom's in AA, her dad's never there, and her brother smokes pot. She's intelligent, but she wants to fit in with a different group of friends. She wants to be friends with Evie, the it girl that everyone loves. Eventually she does get to hang out with her, and she starts falling into a downward spiral of drugs, sex, stealing, drinking, etc. The way this movie is filmed is brilliant - sometimes the movie is in full color, while other times it looks black and white, and sometimes there's color but its faded. It's filmed at a fast, camera-spinning pace, and it adds more reality to the film. There's a lot of swearing (many "effs" thrown around), there's also drug use, sexuality, and nudity. Needless to say, THIRTEEN isn't a kids movie. But it's an amazing film that I recommend to everyone. Overall grade - A+
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