Thirteen

Name: Thirteen
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Released: 2003

Catherine Hardwicke

2003

3.00

Synopsis

Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before Tracy's new world and attitude finally takes a toll on her, her family, and old friends.

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Evan Rachel WoodTracy Freeland
Nikki ReedEvie Zamora
Holly HunterMelanie Freeland
Brady CorbetMason Freeland
Jeremy SistoBrady
Vanessa HudgensNoel
Sarah ClarkeBirdie
Cynthia EttingerCynthia
Ulysses EstradaRafa
Sarah Blakley-CartwrightMedina

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90
Washington Post
It feels like real life unfolding before your eyes.
88
New York Post
Despite its shock value, Thirteen rises above dysfunctional-family-drama cliches, thanks to the truthfulness of its script and the keen eye of a sympathetic director.
88
ReelViews
A smart movie that does not simplify or candy-coat the rigors of the teenage years.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Wood is superb at delineating Tracy's slide into desperate incoherence, but equally impressive is Reed, who has to conceal her writer's intelligence in playing a character who's entirely instinctive and unreflective.
75
Boston Globe
Would it be rude to suggest that your time might be better spent with your own children?
70
Slate
Thirteen has a way of smashing through your defenses. Hardwicke has goosed up the old melodramatic formula with a neorealist syntax and up-to-the-minute cultural nuances and violence.
70
Los Angeles Times
Isn't in league with the Nicholas Ray classic ("Rebel Without a Cause"), but in its ferocious energy and lead performances it's many cuts above most big-screen soap operas.
60
Variety
Deliberately unvarnished shock piece designed to give pause to anyone with a daughter approaching teenhood.

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