Thirteen

USA 2003, 95 minutes
Dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Drama / Independent, Youth, Girl-centric

Feat. Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed

Aroview: Startling depiction of a young teenager who spins out of control as she falls in with the wrong crowd and beyond the reach of her struggling solo-mother (Holly Hunter).

Directed with an appropriate sense of spontaneity, danger and exhilaration, this shakes the rite-of-passage genre out of its complacency from the get-go, compounded by terrific editing, a killer soundtrack and several urgent performances.

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4 stars (Very Good) Solid story with a distinctly L.A. tint to it. I have yet to see a bad Holly Hunter performance. Touches on a lot of good themes about fitting in, friendship, betrayal, family, and struggles with drug abuse and mental illness. ~b1tch.2k