Thirteen

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Thirteen

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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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não sei, odeio e amo

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/27/24

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Dionisis T

Hell is as teenage girl and this movie is proof of that.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/07/24

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Audience Member

i love this movie so much. i relate to it a lot unfortunately. i do not recommend it for people under 13 years old. (also depending on the maturity level)

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/31/24

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Emily P

This movie deserves the 81% percent score it received. For Nikki Reed to write a script at the age of Thirteen when she was experiencing everything she was and was sad, angry, and hurt and to have someone help her write something so beautiful, shocking, and saddening. This movie was said to be semi-autobiographical so 50% of the things in this script was fact the other 50% fiction. I loved the choice of everyone who got to be apart of this movie. I won’t deny it I honestly would’ve loved to see Nikki play the character of Tracy since she stated the character was loosely based on herself emphasizing loosely. I personally think there needs to be more movies out there like this one.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/30/24

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s a

not bad kinda sad but really good acting

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/03/24

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olive r

it made me bawl my eyes out by the end so it gets a A.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/06/24

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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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