Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed
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.
DVD Release Date: January 27, 2004
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September 27, 2009''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) -
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May 7, 2009some 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)
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January 2, 2009Directed 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." >>
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October 13, 2008didn't find this as graphic or as tantalyzing as it was made out to be.
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November 8, 2009Love 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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October 29, 2009I Fuck'nlove this movie
it's cruel and very naughty but awesome
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Critic Reviews
May 4, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
September 4, 2003
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
The movie is a descendant of 1950s juvenile- delinquent melodramas, but it has a chilling emotional authenticity. full review
August 29, 2003
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Thirteen is not a pleasant experience, but it resonates with truth in all of its details. full review
August 29, 2003
Mick LaSalle, 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 a... full review
August 29, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Sets a technical problem that seems insoluble, and meets it brilliantly, finding convincing performances from its teenage stars. showing a parent who is clueless but not uncaring, and a world outside ... full review
August 22, 2003
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Warning: This movie may have uncomfortable similarities to events in your life. full review
August 22, 2003
David Edelstein, Slate
Thirteen has a way of smashing through your defenses. full review
August 20, 2003
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
It's just the latest in the long and proud tradition of pictures that exclaim, with a great deal of hand-wringing, 'Kids today!' If only it brought us closer to understanding them. full review
August 8, 2003
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Every parent's nightmare about how girls go wrong is packed into this movie. full review
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April 11, 2008this movie is awsome caz i am kinda like evie Caz i also got my tongue and belly done so????
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March 2, 2008
Dude. omg, i needa see this movie!! You know why?.. VANESSA HUDGENS IS IN DIS:)
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February 22, 2008i luv the movie...i sorta relate to it...it so good but its also sad...~mel~<333
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February 11, 2008THIS MOVIE WAS THE FUCKING SHIT I LOVE THAT MOVIE ITS THEYRE GONNA BE A SIXTEEN I BET
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January 22, 2008this movie is one of my favorites of all time!
it rocks. it was so cool because i was 13 when it came out(though i didnt see it till i was 14..) but it was so eye opening, ive never noticed that some of my friends at the time were starting to act like this and it surprised me.
gotta get the dvd.. i reccomend this to anyone. especialy a parent of a twee, thats starting to get a little rebellious. -
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December 4, 2007wow...best movie i have seen in a loonngg time. it's just so realistic about everything tht can happen if u do like Tracy did...want nothing but popularity.
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