Thirteen

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Thirteen

R

Released Aug 20, 2003

1h 40m

Drama

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Honor student Tracy Freeland (Evan Rachel Wood) has a troubling home life, but she is close to her mother, Melanie (Holly Hunter). While trying to conceal her inner turmoil by excelling academically, she befriends the calculating Evie (Nikki Reed), her school's queen bee. Evie talks Tracy into experimenting with drugs, exploring her sexuality and pickpocketing strangers to finance shopping sprees -- but before long, Melanie realizes she must step in and stop her daughter's destructive lifestyle.

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Critics Consensus

An emotionally wrenching, not to mention terrifying, film about the perils of being a teenager.

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Amy Taubin

Film Comment Magazine

The script is as overexcited as the girls themselves, and its affirmative ending is unearned.

Apr 10, 2018

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Neil Norman

London Evening Standard

It is here that the performances pay emotional dividends. The sight of Hunter kissing her daughter's self-inflicted scars as if trying to kiss away the psychological pain that raised them will haunt me for some time.

Jan 11, 2018

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Explicit peer pressure story for older teens.

Rated: 4/5

Dec 29, 2010

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

The film remains a searing time capsule of a place, and a timeless elegy for that messy period in girls’ lives that we’re all lucky if we make it out in one piece.

Feb 13, 2024

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Tom Meek

Cambridge Day

Given the room for platitude and cliche, the film's wholly genuine, gritty and from the heart.

Rated: 3.5/4

Oct 3, 2020

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Kaleem Aftab

The List

Thirteen tries too hard to shock... but it is nonetheless a sensational look at the flip side of the American dream.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 17, 2019

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Audience Member

the two main actors did a phenomenal job and the writer and main character did a amazing job with everything especially with the coloring of the film.This is a great movie make you look back on my own life and experiences that have happened similar.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/19/25

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Lexi S

LOVE THIS MOVIE great plot, amazing actresses beautiful sets, perfect storyline,deep meaning, relatable.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/15/25

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thiago s

Filme mais ou menos, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas do delas sao mais ou menos, o filme tem um drama bacaninha e dá um leve melhorada, mas não ajuda o filme a ser bom.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/14/25

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Ember B

To be honest, i don't know because i like or don't like same time. this movie kinda sad. it make me cry when i see the ending. it very hurts to see teenagers do drugs, sneaking out, treat parents different, and self-harm. Which one they not be themselves. they learn from other teenagers and bad inflection and ruined their own teenagers and very traumatized. Learn about what real and fake friend is. I will say mixed emotion this movie.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/25

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Audience Member

Although the movie portrayed a some what realistic story of the life of a young girl going through a rough time it felt like it was written by an actual 13 year old which you'd think is a good thing but it was really sloppy, incoherent and very boring. And I never really understood the point in movies that make drug addiction seem cool.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/06/25

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Geema C

Has someone who is about to turn 13 in 2 days it's currently Jan 3 my bday is Jan 5th. This movie is a masterpiece of how some friends can turn into lessons. Or people might not be what they seem.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/04/25

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Synopsis

Honor student Tracy Freeland (Evan Rachel Wood) has a troubling home life, but she is close to her mother, Melanie (Holly Hunter). While trying to conceal her inner turmoil by excelling academically, she befriends the calculating Evie (Nikki Reed), her school's queen bee. Evie talks Tracy into experimenting with drugs, exploring her sexuality and pickpocketing strangers to finance shopping sprees -- but before long, Melanie realizes she must step in and stop her daughter's destructive lifestyle.

Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Producer: Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte, Michael London
Screenwriter: Nikki Reed, Catherine Hardwicke
Distributor: 20th Century Fox, Fox
Production Co: Michael London Productions, Antidote Films
Rating: R (Language|Drug Use|Self Destructive Violence|Sexuality)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 20, 2003, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 25, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.6M
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Surround

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