1. Thirteen movie review & film summary (2003) - Roger Ebert
Aug 29, 2003 · This is the frightening story of how a nice girl falls under the influence of a wild girl and barely escapes big, big, big trouble.
Sun-Times Film Critic 'The two worst years of a woman's life," writes Nell Minow, "are the year she is 13 and the year her daughter is." There are exceptions
2. Thirteen Movie Review | Common Sense Media
Sep 2, 2024 · We get to experience both at once in THIRTEEN, about 7th grader Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood), who's catapulted into self-destructive behavior ...
Explicit peer pressure story for older teens. Read Common Sense Media's Thirteen review, age rating, and parents guide.
3. Thirteen - Rotten Tomatoes
Honor student Tracy Freeland (Evan Rachel Wood) has a troubling home life, but she is close to her mother, Melanie (Holly Hunter).
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.
4. “Thirteen” Review - The Communicator
Mar 21, 2023 · This movie exists as a cautionary tale, a warning to both parents and teens. Along with this, I found the costumes and symbolism of the movie so ...
Trigger Warning: This review discusses eating disorders, self harm, and substance abuse. Please take care of yourself. Adolescence; the shaky period between being big and little. Not yet sure of our place, we can find them in people and danger—at least that’s what Tracy Freeman did. “Thirteen,” the cult classic movie released in 2003, doesn’t...
5. “Thirteen” Turned the Teen Flick Inside Out - sundance.org
Thirteen was shocking for adults because it forced them to confront their own choices and how those decisions may have altered their children's lives.
By Aramide Tinubu Thirteen begins with a slap across the face. Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) and her new bestie Evie (Nikki Reed) sit cross-legged in her bedroom, slapping each other forcefully enough to draw blood while huffing compressed air and laughing maniacally at one another. A flurry of rock music pounds away in the background.
6. Two Perspectives on Thirteen a film by Catherine Hardwicke, co-written ...
It is a reasonably disturbing film about the liminal moment between girlhood and womanhood and the contingency of it all.
The acting was about as good as American film gets. And it is also a film with scant character development: We are given nothing more than circumstantial evidence to explain how and why main characters Tracy and Evie got to be the way they are, and few clues to make sense of Tracy's rapid descent from normal pre-pubescence to drug-addled floozy under Evie's influence. We are supposed to take Evie's coolness and desirability, and her incredible self-centeredness that leads her to betray Tracy, for granted.
7. Thirteen - Plugged In
That's it for plot. What moviegoers are in for is a near-docudrama in which the camera follows two seventh graders as they experiment with lesbianism, multiple ...
See AlsoBlackbaud Bradshaw ChristianA near-docudrama in which the camera watches two seventh graders go bad. Really bad.
8. Thirteen and the relevance it still has today - All The Right Movies
Thirteen focuses on 13-year-old Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) and her befriending of popular girl, Evie (Nikki Reed), which leads her down of a path of rebellion.
We're revisiting a forgotten coming-of-age gem of a movie from the early '00s. It's Catherine Hardwicke's Thirteen.
9. Growing Pains: The horror of Catherine Hardwicke's Thirteen ...
Aug 18, 2023 · Like Thirteen, these films represent coming-of-age as a painful and, in many ways, horrific experience, marked by unsettling transformations and ...
Exploring the cultural relevance and realism of Hardwicke’s debut coming-of-age film 20 years after its release. Searchlight Pictures CW: Self-harm, substance abuse, mental health, youth sexuality …
10. 20 Years Later, "Thirteen" Should Be Queer Coming-of-Age Canon
Aug 21, 2023 · At its worst, Thirteen is just a Dateline special about “rainbow parties” with great acting and overzealous color grading. But whenever it ...
Some movies are so powerful, you don’t even have to see them. It’s enough to steal a furtive glance at two older girls with pierced tongues on a DVD cover at your local Blockbuster.
11. THIRTEEN - Movieguide | Movie Reviews for Families
THIRTEEN can easily be considered every parent's worst nightmare for their adolescent. In the movie, 13-year-old Tracy enters middle school and quickly surmises ...
THIRTEEN can easily be considered every parent’s worst nightmare for their adolescent. In the movie, 13-year-old Tracy enters middle school and quickly
12. Thirteen - Variety
Jan 29, 2003 · A raw psychodrama about a girl who leapfrogs from pre-adolescent innocence to reckless rebel in a few easy lessons taught by the school bad chick.
A raw psychodrama about a girl who leapfrogs from pre-adolescent innocence to reckless rebel in a few easy lessons taught by the school bad chick, "Thirteen" is a deliberately unvarnished shock piece designed to give pause to anyone with a daughter approaching teenhood.
