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• Actors: Evan Rachel Wood, Holly Hunter, Nikki Reed, Jeremy Sisto, Brady Corbet
• Directors: Catherine Hardwicke
• Writers: Nikki Reed, Catherine Hardwicke
• Producers: Holly Hunter, Canada Johanna Gordon, Christina Sibul, Eric Fellner, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte
• Format: Anamorphic, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: January 27, 2004
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (390 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00013RC2K
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #3,438 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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A gut-wrenching portrait of adolescence, Thirteen is made all the more powerful because it was co-written by a genuine teenage girl, Nikki Reed, who also co-stars in the movie. Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood), a serious good student, finds herself needing to express her anger and resentment at her fractured family life. To rebel, she pursues a friendship with the reckless, alluring Evie (Reed), who seems to have all the cocksure freedom that Tracy desires. What follows is both harrowing and compelling: Tracy becomes enmeshed in a relationship with Evie that empowers Tracy and drags her deeper into the misery she wants to escape--and terrifies her mother (Holly Hunter), who struggles desperately to hold on to her daughter's love. Thirteen makes every step on this path utterly convincing, due to the vivid script, energized direction, and astonishingly alive performances from Hunter, Reed, and especially Wood. Jolting, sad, and mesmerizing. --Bret Fetzer

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"Brace yourself" (Rolling Stone) for a raw, revealing insight into urban adolescence that's so intense and realistic, "it's possible to turn away (Interview Magazine). Anxiously trying to fit into the peer-pressure cooker environment of junior high, thirteen-year-old Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) goes to shocking lengths in order to befriend Evie (co-writer Nikki Reed), the most popular girl in school. Now the two are inseparable - and incorrigible - leaving Tracy's desperate mom (Academy Award winner Holly Hunter) powerless to rescue her from a whirlwind of drugs, sex and crime.

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88 of 95 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrifyingly real..., January 29, 2004

By	K. Corn "reviewer" (Indianapolis,, IN United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)    (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Thirteen (DVD)

The litmus test for the realism in this one - watched it with a group of 12-18 year old girls and they all said it reflected the reality of being teenagers, with all the actual pressures and stresses of their high school and social lives. This is, quite simply, one of the most honest (and painful) movies about adolescence that I've ever seen..and it was written by a teenager who also stars in the movie...amazing!
At the start of the movie, Tracy (played by Evan Rachel Wood) is a good student with a not-so-great family life. Her mother is struggling to put food on the table and under a lot of pressure to hold family and home together.
So it makes sense that Tracy would be drawn to "the coolest girl in school", Evie, a wild rebel with a penchant for danger. Evie gladly takes Tracy under her wings, often pushing her into Tracy into situations she isn't prepared for (parents should be aware that some of the scenes are graphic, including sexuality and nudity).
It is impressive that this film is so utterly believable and the sensational and often shocking scenes make sense in the context of Tracy and Evie's lives. Adding to the strength of this film is Holly Hunter's strong performance as a mother who is desperate to save her daughter but isn't quite sharp enough to find the right path. One of the best films of the year, bar none!

29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, gut-wrenching, and realistic, August 29, 2003

By	Mark Twain "Sam" - See all my reviews

True, "Thirteen" tries to cram too much into a 95 minute film. Cutting, sex, drugs, and alcohol are just a few of the things these teenagers experience. And yes, not many 13 year old girls get to experience all that at such an early age, but wake up people, it IS out there despite what you think. And that's why calling "Thirteen" unrealistic because of what it portrays is unjustified. All of us, at one point or another, have had a hard time fitting in. We have all felt alone and useless and angry. And "Thirteen" portrays all those feelings extremely well. It isn't an expertly written film, but it has heart and emotion.

A debut film from Catherine Hardwicke, Thirteen is a terrifying film about a little girl whose life goes right off the rails. Co-written by then 13-year-old Nikki Reed, who also co-stars in the movie, Thirteen features Evan Rachel Wood as Tracy, a nice kid in seventh grade, who wants to be popular. The movie begins with two girls engaged in a grotesque game of face-slapping and then goes back in time a few months. Here is an entirely innocent Tracy tossing out her stuffed animals -- a bit reluctantly -- while her mom looks on. Holly Hunter plays mom; she's a single mother and a hairdresser whose clients come to the house. Mom has her issues, but works hard to keep everything together.

At school, Tracy can only look with envy at a trio of popular girls led by the beautiful, well-dressed, grown-up Evie (Reed). Soon, Evie and Tracy bond over a little shoplifting, and in a matter of weeks, Tracy's life has changed completely. She becomes best friends with Evie and immediately joins the likes of the In-Crowd. Everything spirals straight downhill from there...

Evie is dangerous. She cons everyone who crosses her path, and before long she's actually living at Tracy's house and messing up the whole family. (On her side, Evie has for family only a narcissistic aunt, played with gusto by Deborah Kara Unger.)

The descent into teen hell in Thirteen is a touch too quick to fully make sense, but the characters are so perfectly drawn and the performances so raw and so brilliant that the film manages to have an amazing impact.

For a lot of reasons, Thirteen should be required viewing. The director, Catherine Hardwicke, has shown Thirteen at schools, teen centres, juvenile halls and the like; parents who don't shock easily should take their teenaged children to see this movie. Every parent's nightmare about how girls go wrong is packed into this movie and onto Hunter's frazzled face as she watches her daughter deteriorate. The whole thing would stink of phony moralizing if Catherine Hardwicke, who won the directing prize at Sundance 2003, didn't pack it with such raw vitality. Reed is strikingly good as Evie. She should be: She was thirteen when she wrote the semi-autobiographical script with Hardwicke, who used to date Reed's divorced dad. But the revelation is Wood, 15, formerly of TV's Once and Again, who makes Tracy's transformation harrowing and haunting. She's a live wire. Brace yourself for Thirteen -- it'll cause a commotion.

26 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT...SORT OF, February 6, 2004

By	Shanea "existenceseven" (VA Baby!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Thirteen (DVD)

Tracy is a sweet yet troubled teen who meets the alluring bad girl Evie and falls into a life of drugs sex and crime but this is not some dreadful after school special version of teen issues with cute and tidy resolutions. Thirteen is a bold, gut-wrenching film about the crumbling American family and the current generation of overexposure, MTV, reality shows, and disillusionment. Tracy is astonishingly portrayed by Evan Rachel Wood who gives such an amazing performance it should take child-acting to new heights. Evie is portrayed by Nikki Reed (who also co-penned the script) is a vibrant screen newcomer. The Oscar nominated Holly Hunter ,as Mel, is brilliant as a bohemian, alcoholic single mom who watches her daughter Tracy descend into self-destruction right before her eyes. The director Catherine Hardwicke directs the film with relentless, edgy appeal giving the film it's power and drive.

Although most critics give the film massive acclaim, some have shuddered at the shocking horror of the explicit nature of the teen lifestyles of Thirteen and many perhaps deny the possible accuracy of the film. "Are kids really that bad?" No, not all kids are drug-users dealers hypersexed or criminals but one must admit with a generation raised on MTV and Hollywood scandal , where many kids have to go to school in fear if their classmates may kill them, a generation where many believe oral sex isn't as intimate as kissing, or being a "pimp" or a "thug" is the true aspiration of life...the mood of the film is an unflinching cinematic opus to a generation sadly spiralling out of control.