Thirteen

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Thirteen

Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Kip Pardue

A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.

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  • AgentLexi2132
    December 26, 2009
    AgentLexi2132
    ''If everybody married someone from a different race then in one generation there would me be no prejudice.''

    A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled be...( read more)st friend.

    Evan Rachel Wood: Tracy Freeland

    First of all, Thirteen is a story of characters, a story true to life that doesn't hold back on the punches. Scenes contain the truthful grit of desperation in this web of conceit surrounding the main female lead, Tracy Freeland, amazingly played by a favourite of mine, Evan Rachel Wood. I mean Thirteen really gets across the troubled angst of teenage behavior especially in certain girls at this crucial stage in life.
    Performances are really above par here in Thirteen, whether its Holly Hunter playing Tracy's troubled, vulnerable mother Melanie Freeland, or her psychotic, unruly, trouble-maker best friend Evie Zamora played by Mikki Reed. There really is alot to think about in Thirteen and the performances combined with a story and script everyone can relate to, a story which echoes realism and struggle in dual doses.


    As Thirteen progresses so do we as we see the evolution and change of a girl, in this circumstance, Tracy Freeland, she begins as an innocent, intelligent girl. We see her doing well at school, civil friends, and a stable relationship with her mother and family. Then as fate has it, an equation comes along that tips all these proceedings on there head, the catalyst in question, a girl. The girl being, someone Tracy finds enticing, someone she wants to know and be noticed by, this girl Evie Zamora a beauty but trouble. So Tracy proceeds to change, to be accepted by this Evie and thus herself changing, as always for better or for worse. Just in this case for the worse.
    Scenarios show her divorced parents, her mothers ex-drug addict boyfriend, her friend Evie's bad ways.
    We really begin to see Thirteen deliver rebellious ways of both girls, Tracy reverting to her attraction to Evie, Evie teaching her bad ways without even aware of doing so.

    Director Catherine Hardwicke also knows how to utilize an array of camrea techniques and clever formulated angles which help portray the mood and chaos happening at specific points in Thirteen. Combine a dizzying soundtrack with an impressive visual style, and alot of memorable acting which explains why Thirteen has something of a cult following. To me, it seems everyone at some point in their life had to cross from being a child into adult-hood, and the change that takes place in this state of change. This reason I feel, is why Thirteen succeeds in captivating viewers and giving our grey matters something to feed upon.

    Overall, Thirteen deals with family, friendship, silly things we do when we are young, and the changes we confront. Drugs, drinking, a change in lifestyle, friendships, a journey of life for a troubled world and the confused inhabitants traveling through this stormy repertoire we call living.
    Helen Hunter was Oscar Nominated but failed to win, which surprises me when I see this superior acting in play. I'm also mystified how Evan Rachel Wood didn't even receive some sort of nomination, she is utterly spell blinding in her role.
    Thirteen reasons why to see Thirteen: Riveting story, powerful performances, clever filming and camera angles, addictive soundtrack, Sexuality, Family life, Friendships, The hazards of Drugs, The falseness of so called friends, Betrayals, Happiness and unhappiness, Mistakes we make, and the best reason is how true to life Thirteen succeeds in being.

    ''You're my heart.''
  • LitelBluHli
    May 12, 2009
    LitelBluHli
    So real...I love it!
  • organgrinder136
    May 7, 2009
    organgrinder136
    some okay acting... but the whole thing was bollocks really. it's about a load of teenie bopper girls going around humping alot of slightly older black guys. haha... exactly what i just thought. i've just read what someone else wrote about this... "give you a second thought befor...( read more)e having kids!" kudos whatever that fucking means
  • SilentWarProductions2009
    January 2, 2009
    SilentWarProductions2009
    Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke.
    Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed, Holly Hunter.

    << "I love you and your brother more than anything in the world. I would die for you, but I won't leave you alone right now." >>

    The story follows an A-gra...( read more)de, 13 year old student who, after getting befriended by the newly popular girl in school, she changes herself physically to get noticed and soon spirals and changes into something else that ultimately affects her and those around her.

    Catherine Hardwicke really hits you where it hurts here. Sure, the bleak-doco style is nothing original these days in such a film, but Thirteen is made all the more powerful and unexpectedly emotional thanks to Catherine's great skill to control the emotions and channel each of her characters so well and really stick them center stage...and the brilliant handheld work (surprising when I thought it was steadicam) and bleak, bleached-out cinematography which is amazingly shot, really works well alongside it all.

    What really shocked me was the fact that star Nikki Reed, aged 15 at the time I might add, co-wrote the script for this film and loosely based it on a real-life experience. The script is grounded so far into realism that some might find it too much to take. The characters are brilliantly defined and given enough heart to make us care for them every step of the way, which only adds more to the raw emotion the script throws at us...and thank god it never sinks into soapy-pop culture trends and views.

    The performances are truly outstanding. Holly Hunter is mind-blowing as the single mother trying to support her family. Her impressive balance between the characters caring notions for her children and her blinded ways of the things around her is simply amazing to watch and when things kick into an emotional gear, her performance gets even more powerful. Everyone seems to automatically point to Holly Hunter as the great performance of the film, but really it belongs to Evan Rachel Wood. For someone with such mediocrity in acting at the time, she takes big steps up and rips through her troubled character with such raw power and understanding and its easy to say that if she keeps this up, she will go far, a truly powerful performance.

    Thirteen is simply a shockingly and unexpectedly powerful film. A brutally realistic, if slightly exaggerated portrayal of a torn family and the unfortunate reality of teenage life. Brilliantly directed with a familiar style handled so well, powerfully acted and astonishingly written...and with help from the 15 year old co-star Nikki Reed (co-writer), it makes it all the more realistic. It may be a great thing at first to know your kids 'grow up so fast', but think twice. Highly recommended.

    85/100

    << "If everybody married someone from a different race then in one generation there would be no prejudice." >>
  • lyndsiekivell
    October 13, 2008
    lyndsiekivell
    didn't find this as graphic or as tantalyzing as it was made out to be.
  • yazzcash
    December 24, 2009
    yazzcash
    omg ... all i wanna do is watch the damn moviee
  • Mikaela22
    December 23, 2009
    Mikaela22
    'Thirteen' just shows how some teens can get in with the wrong crowd and start taking drugs, having sex and breaking the law just to be 'cool' and 'popular'. This movie actually had a point to it. A really sad ending.
  • mattdlevy
    December 13, 2009
    mattdlevy
    A decent movie with some amazing performances on the part of Wood and Hunter. I think it is some what overrated though, still it was good and worth watching for the performances
  • jaden482
    December 1, 2009
    jaden482
    I like this movie. i watched it at a frends house but never got to see it all...anyone kno wher i can see it online? lol *fp*
  • stilettokillerz
    November 8, 2009
    stilettokillerz
    Love it since the story is real, and it speaks the truth on how life can be hard from the perspective of a 13 year old girl.
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