Truly a film to terrify every parent, Thirteen is about, as you might imagine, a pair of thirteen year old girls, best friends. But unlike most movies about thirteen year olds, these arent cute, well-behaved cheerleading wannabes, they're drinking, drug-taking, smoking, swearing, manipulative little monsters. Out anti-heroine is Tracy, a cutesy thirteen year old whose just entered middle school. She loves her mum (Holly Hunter), babyish clothing and getting her homework in on time. Until she notices Evie. Everything she isn't, Evie is cool, sexy and a real uber-bitch. Tracy becomes obsessed with the idea of being Evie's best friend. One costume change, a ...  Read the complete review

I had never even heard about this film until I went into a discount DVD and music shop in the Metro Centre, Newcastle and spotted this on offer at 3 DVD's for £10. As well as the fact I have never heard anything about this film, with the low price I wasn't expecting too much, nothing more than a flop... However at the time I was really into buying new DVD's and watching as many films as I could and at less than £4 was hardly breaking the bank. The front cover of the DVD looks quite bland and straight to the point - giving you an idea of what lies in the DVD underneath... you have the image of two young girls showing off tongue piercings and the title of the ...  Read the complete review

Film Only Review: Tracy Freeland (Evan Rachel Wood) is a typical 13 year old girl. She starts off as a good student who loves her mum Mel (Holly Hunter) who is divorced and a recovering alcoholic and lives with her and her brother Mason ((Brady Corbet). She has friends at school though becomes a little starstruck by one particular girl and her mates Evie Zamora (Nikki Reed) who although she is 13 has the looks the body and everyone bowing down to her and is a bit of a celeb really lol. Tracy wants to be cool and popular and liked as much as her idol and weedles her way in with her after stalking her to the shops where Evie is with her friend shoplifting and to ...  Read the complete review

I had forgotten all about Thirteen. Flicking through the dashboard on my blog less than 5 minutes ago before I started writing this I came across an image of two girls. They were dressed in tight jeans, low cut tops and had their pieced tounges sticking out. They looked to be having fun and seemed to look like your average 'mature' teenagers - maybe sixteen, perhaps seventeen. The picture looked strangely familiar and so I sat there looking at the screen for a few seconds and then it clicked - the two girls in the picture were characters from a film that i'd seen many years ago. In fact i'd seen it quite a few times as after the first time I saw it I soon became a big ...  Read the complete review

Thirteen was a film which could either be brilliant, or very distasteful and unrealistic. The content of the film is frightening for any parent, I'm sure, and really brings home how much pressure children are under from different people to do different things. I think it successfully conveyed how out of control things can get for teenagers today through a series of unexpected events. Thirteen looks to show how quickly teenagers grow up now, as the story follows two thirteen year olds, Tracy and Evie, not facing the usual trials and tribulations associated with been thirteen, but instead getting involved in a world of drugs, drinking, smoking and sex. ...  Read the complete review