lorcan-61881 Thirteen is a 2003 drama that stars Holly Hunter and follows her coping as a mother to maintain the new and disrespectful personality of her daughter after entering into the wrong friend zone, filled with sex, petty crime and drugs. Thirteen sounded like a enjoyable watch at the time and when i finally watched my DVD, I was slowly more and more hooked to the reality on the screen, although, me being a teenager, knows that the style in this movie as CRINGY AS HELL, this film is so true and has happened before and is still happening all over the world, kids have a dream to be someone they don't even know themselves so they can be accepted in life only to be let down more then they already were, I have actually seen it before and experienced it a couple of times myself, the acting, dialogue and pace is so well done and actors like Holly Hunter, Jeremy Sisto and Nikki Reed totally steal the sha. It's just so painful and shocking to think that a sweet girl like the main girl in the film can actually change that much into a disrespectful, punk, foul mouth attituded teenager. Thirteen is a very educational film for parents who think they're children are acting like they never did before. 10/10! Ps. I'm back!!

Danii Disaster I don't know why this movie has gotten so many positive reviews. Thank God I didn't pay to watch it. I found a DVD in a hotel room, and, since there was nothing better to do at the time, decided to watch it. It's not very good to say the least. In fact, one of the worst teen movies I have seen -- and I've seen PLENTY. THE PLOT:Can be summarized in one sentence: A supposedly "good" teen mixes with the "wrong" crowd and gets in trouble. We have seen this before dozens of times, but this has to be the worst attempt at rehashing an already overused storyline. Nothing original here, except - they are trying TOO hard to shock the viewer, but end up with a totally unconvincing, dull and over-acted excuse for a movie. Annoying to some extent, but mostly boring, uncool and predictable. CHARACTERS: Character development is non-existent. You know nothing about these people, except that they're trailer trash. The lead actress is obnoxious. You can't relate to her, and feel no sympathy for her at any given moment. She has no personality whatsoever. There is no way the "popular girl" (Evie) could pass for a teenager. It was ridiculous to cast her as a 13-year-old. She'll be hard-pressed to pass for an 18-year-old, let alone 13. The acting is not great. The characters are one-dimensional, and many of them are trying too hard (over-acting). THE MESSAGE: I'm not sure I understand the point of this movie. What is the message? If I understand correctly, the message is... if you want to fit in with the popular kids, you must:(1) Dress like a cheap prostitute. (2) Sleep with every guy at school + hit on everything that moves (male, female, old, young, ugly... whatever). (3) Pretend to be bisexual. (4) Use drugs. (5) Engage in some form of self-mutilation. (6) Get as many piercings as possible.(7) Steal from your family, friends, shops, etc. (8) Genuinely despise your loved ones. (9) Dispose of your old friends when they no longer benefit you. (10) Have no ambition in life other than partying. TO SUMMARIZE I don't know what could possibly be appealing about movie. It was supposed to be shocking and realistic, but it fails miserably at both. Are they trying to say that this is what a typical teenager is like? Or supposed to be like? Well... I really doubt it. This movie is about retarded inbred underage whores, not typical teenagers. The whole movie is boring, predictable, stupid and badly acted, but the ending takes the biscuit - it's totally incoherent and makes zero sense. I wouldn't watch this crap again; not even if they paid me to.

ironhorse_iv It's weird to think that Catherine Hardwicke of Twilight fame directed this movie. While it's not that good of a movie, it's truly a scary look into our ever changing society. It's not so uncommon to hear stupid children having unprotected sex, drug and alcohol abuse, and doing crime. Children like that will regret wasting their childhood. Ladies and gentlemen if you're a parent, raise your children right! If you're turning thirteen, don't end up like these characters in the film. If you're still acting immature, grow up. Despite the fact that the acting is pretty good in this film and it's a cautious moral tale of losing control of yourself during your teen years. This movie was really hard to watch. Thirteen year olds taking drugs, having sex and behaving horribly really is not that entertaining to watch. Brace yourself as this movie is just a catalog of bad actions that will anger you. The movie is about thirteen year old girl name Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) whom seems like a sweet, innocent little girl with big plans for her life. Once turning thirteen, Tracy's behavior starts to change to the worst when she meets a new friend at school name Evie (Nikki Reed). The whole movie is Tracy rebelling against her mother Melanie (Holly Hunter) in the most self-destructive ways possible with a girl who is even more troubled. There are teens who act this way in real life, but these are the very worst cases. This movie serve one purpose by showing shock value. The audience is shown the most deplorable things one teenage girl can do and can get away with showing on screen. It's sickly to watch. There is barely any redemption arch at all, as the movie is 1 hour and half full of teen angst. While the movie 'Kids' was a little bit more shocking due to its documentary style, this movie acts like a melodrama badly made episode of Jerry Springer. It has the very stereotypical story plot of a spoil brat not getting her way so feel bad for me. I really hate the movie makes piercing tongues and belly buttons seems like a gateway to drugs and crime. There are plenty of people that get it, and are well off. Why was there pointless nudity in the form of the mother Holly Hunter? She didn't need to be nude in this film. I know it supposed to show that she is losing herself due to her daughter's actions, but why have her nude doing that? It's not like any 13 year old can even watch the movie as it is R rating. Rather than trying to get this PG-13, the director fails. There are films that make these bad actions look cool that are rated PG-13. This movie if rightly watch by a teenager can understand in dealing more intelligently and forthrightly with the consequences of the behavior it depicts. The movie carry an interesting educational message but it never got solves. The movie also makes children of American society looks like bad. There are many places in the world and even in America, where teenagers like this do not exist and never have. Yes, it's true that some teenagers act like this, but as young as thirteen year olds? Maybe 15, but you'd be surprised what 13 year olds do these days. Another cliché that must be mentioned was the decision of having the blonde blue-eyed girl portraying the good girl gone bad as the color girl portraying the seed of evil. Although in real life the Latina girl had been the blonde's role. Surprising the movie is based on the life of the actress that plays Evie, Nikki Reed who co-wrote the screenplay. Everyone who hates Evie in this movie that just proves that Nikki Reed is an amazing actress because in real life she's such a sweetheart! She was Tracy in real life. The very last scene where Tracy spinning at the playground is disappointing, don't know if it's supposed to be a conceptual scene. I just leave it at that. If you want a film overflowing with pretensions of importance, piercings, and racial stereotyping, by all means, get this movie. If you want a real, profound insight into the mind of a teenager, read Seigel's Like the Red Panda or Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.

fullhouseo I love movies. Just in general. And I have never shut off a movie halfway through just because I feel all movies need the full run time to redeem themselves. This didn't. At all. In fact, it just got worse. Keep in mind I'm the type of person who rarely dislikes a movie, let alone hates it. Mostly because I only watch movies I think I'd like. That being said, this is the worst movie I've ever seen. To think I could have been watching Family Guy with the time I spent watching this crap. They made cliché after cliché-- it was sickening! I have never met a person with as many problems as the main character. I know people who have cut themselves. I know people who are constantly drinking or doing drugs. I know people who steal. And I know people who will do whatever they can to be popular. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON. It's like the writers mixed everyone they knew in high school into the main character. Not to mention how uncalled for everything she did was. Unless that girl was seriously bipolar, she had very little reason to act out the way she did. A lot of kids parents are divorced and less, but still a good handful, of kids have parents who date losers. That's no reason to cut yourself! She must have been bipolar or something relatively similar! But if she was, the movie should have said so. But it didn't.And there was one scene where they were snorting coke. Is this 1976?! Can you even get a coke dealer anymore?There were unanswered questions on top of it all, too. The other girl who rats her out. Why did she do it? Was she actually worried? Is she so petty that it was about not letting her stay at her house?And my last complaint was a lack of ending. It just stopped. We don't know if the girl got help. We don't know what happened to anyone, really. I'm sure the filmmakers think it's cool to just end a movie on some kind of cliffhanger, but they're wrong. It wasn't cool and you left the movie on a depressing note that, frankly, had my mother in tears. You can't just end something like that. However, it was in a way the perfect ending. The movie was disappointing throughout, why not give us a disappointing ending?Oh and whoever casted this thing is out of their mind if they expect me to believe that any of those characters are 13. I know you have to fill out a little extra paperwork to get actors under 18, but if you cared at all about your movie, you would fit the part.Jeremy Sisto, I love you man, but this movie was beneath you.