Thirteen

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Summary: l loved it
Review: i loved it. It was the best. I really like that it is alot about Nikki Reed's real life and she is a great actress.
Evan Rachell wood is a great actress too i saw the movie she played in with david gallagher called little secrets but this movie was much better it is really kool for kids to watch i know i just turned 13 so this is a fun movie and i really like the way that the characters dressed i didnt like how they acted i could never be that mean or anythin but i like there outfits i could get into clothes like that well ok i got 2 go so talk to ya l8ter byezz oh ya brady corbet he played masin hes hott !(...)

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Summary: Hard to review...
Review: Many parents probably don't trust their kids and think they are like this. Let me tell you, no thirteen year olds do this. None. There may be a few, but they probably don't have parents.

The problem is, this movie tries to be over the top. First, 13 year olds don't look like they are in their late teens. I mean cmon, no thirteen year old looks like that. Then there is the whole prostitution/drug thing. If there are kids like that, it's a result of terrible parenting. But the fact is, I don't know anyone who has so many problems at age thirteen. I mean cmon, who goes into prostitution at age thirteen?

Many people are naive and say stuff like, "This movie truly showed me the light!" Wrong, don't believe it. It tries to be over the top and stereotypical that teens are rebellious and do all this crap. The fact is, this movie is far from the truth, and many can't see that.

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Summary: Touched a nerve
Review: When I asked my parents to rent this movie for me, they were hesitant. "Are you sure you want to see it?" the asked.
I did see it and I'm glad. Painfully true, Thirteen made me remember a period in my life when I was angry, depressed and wild. Pretty much everything that happened to Tracy happened to me. Shoplifting, drinking, drugs, selfharm, promiscuity......I felt like I understood Tracy, inside out. Before that I played with dolls and vowed to never even smoke a cigarette.
That all happened when I was fourteen. Now I'm seventeen, and all that's left to remind me of that period in my life is a few faint scars, a pile of stolen CDs and the knowledge that the teenage years are not a golden cheerleader dream; they are frightening, exciting, horrible and wonderful all at the same time. This movie embodies the very essence of adolecence, as I remember it. A masterpiece.

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Summary: The real thing
Review: American Beauty meets Kids meets Traffic. About a "good girl" turned "bad girl", when she enters the world of drugs, casual sex, self-mutilation, etc. at age thirteen. Unlike most teen tragedy sop stories, it manages to steer clear of clichés and pop-psychology quick fixes. There's no good guy, no bad guy, no moral of the story.

What I liked about this movie was that it was so raw and unrefined (it was co-written by a thirteen-year-old based on her experiences), which in turn made it so chillling.

A must for all parents, or parents-to-be.

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Summary: GARBAGE!!!
Review: This movie is the most cliched pile of garbage I have ever seen! I also found it kind of racist, notice how everytime she snuck out to do something bad it was with black people? Sickening.

This movie felt like a crappy MTV video. How could anyone say this is a masterpeice? Gosh.

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Summary: Horrifyingly Realistic
Review: In this horrfyingly realistic outlook upon the life of teenagers in middle school Tracie is a well balanced girl until she befriends the most popular girl in school, Evie. As Evie and Tracie come closer and closer together Tracie is transformed from her perfect being into a sex / drug / and crime addict. As the movie reaches its climax, we relize that tracie isn't as happy as we think she is even though she has befriended the most popular girl in school and has tons of popular friends. Me being actually 13 it frightens me even more, because I know that things like this in middle school happens, but this movie just opened my eyes and showed me that Middle School and Teenage life is maybe one of the hardest things to go through ever.
This movie won my favorite movie of the Year award, i loved it so much i had my mom go out and bye it for me. I would recomend this movie to anyone even if you are 80, this is a truly inspiring and heart-breaking movie horrifying truthes about what teenagers have to do to fit in and be liked.

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Summary: The Reality of a Teenagers World
Review: I rented THIRTEEN because my sister had suggested it and she wanted to see it. I am myself 13-years-old and let me tell you the movie is pretty much what a teenagers world is like. All the adults out tehre don't know how much teenagers in actuality get up to but this movie shows it all. Once you get into it you just go deeper. The cutting almost every teenager does that. The subject was so true. I mean I know a lot of people don't think that teenagers steal and get involed with drugs but they do. They get involved in more things than anyone would realize. Many of my friends are like the girls portrayed in the film. This movie has impacted me and I had to buy it after renting it. It will impact adults as it will any teenager. By the end of the film my mother, my sister, and I were all in tears. This movie is terrific and I recommend it to anyone over the age of 12 girls and guys will like it.

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Summary: Scary Portrait of Female Adolescence
Review: I warned a single Mom of teenage daughters co-worker of watching this movie that it just may scare her worse than Freddie Kruger or Hannibal Lecter. No, "Thirteen" most definitely isn't in the horror flick genre, but it's ability to frighten speaks to the film's unflinching portrait of the pressures of adolescence for young girls becoming women. Parents of teenage daughters may wince, but it seems to offer a more complete understanding or reminder of what those formative years could be like.

There are some pretty amazing performances here, top of which is turned in by Holly Hunter as a single mom divorcee, reformed addict trying desperately to hold herself and family together. Her performance is honest, true, and entirely believable. Also amazing is the performance turned in by Evan Rachel Wood as the misguided and mal-influenced teen that takes a tailspin dive when following popularity at the hands of a manipulative "it" girl. And now to the best performance that turned in by the "it" girl played by Nikki Reed. Here's the catch and the amazing story behind "thirteen." Reed's top bill performance isn't on screen. She wrote the screenplay as a teenager, a simply phenomenal accomplishment; we get the vision straight from the horse's mouth. That's accounts for the film;s truism.

Don't miss this film. Scenes of shopping and model ads may seem like a unoriginal trademark tool in other films but they underlie the message of the pressure we as a society place on young girls to be cool, to be beautiful, to be thin, to be in. That's pressure a developing young adult could do without. Yet another fine point driving you to watch "Thirteen." Don't miss it.
--MMW

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Summary: The Book???
Review: This isn't exactly a review. This is a question. My question is: Does this movie have a book to go along with it? If it does then can you email me the title and author to this screenname [e-mail] and on the email put the title book name so I know it is that email and not a virus. Please and Thank you very much.

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Summary: Unique and powerful
Review: Anyone who has ever been or known a 13-year-old girl should by all means buy this DVD. It stayed with me for weeks as a true work of art: scary, exhilarating and infuriating at the same time. It's not perfect-the acting is uneven and the writers try a little too hard to justify the acting-out of the two girls. Anyone who's been 13 knows you don't really need a reason to go nuts at that age. But the director never lets the story spin out of control or take an "Afterschool Special" detour into moralizing or life lessons. The story ends as it begins, on an ambiguous and disturbing note. Just as with real 13-year-old girls, you just don't know how these two are going to end up. An incredible soundtrack is just another reason to check this out. Outstanding work all around.