Thirteen (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Thirteen |
| Original title | Thirteen |
| Country of production | USA , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Catherine Hardwicke |
| script |
Catherine Hardwicke , Nikki Reed |
| production |
Jeffrey Levy-Hinte , Michael London |
| music | Mark Mothersbaugh |
| camera | Elliot Davis |
| cut | Nancy Richardson |
| occupation | |
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Thirteen (English title: Thirteen ) is a film by Catherine Hardwicke and Nikki Reed in 2003. He is based in part on the experience of Reed as a thirteen year old and her then-environment. The film caused controversy as it features topics such as alcohol and drug use, and sexual acts related to minors.
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The 13-year-old student Tracy is a model student and a good daughter. She lives with her single mom Mel, who has a drug addict boyfriend, and her brother Mason in a small district of LA. This year she is entering middle school and the first day Tracy and her friend Noel are pretty intimidated. At this school she meets the popular clique around Evie Zamora, to whom many boys, including Mason, feel drawn.
Tracy is so impressed with the casualness of the clique that she absolutely wants to be part of it. When she gets her cell phone number from Evie, she is proud and looking forward to a day of shopping on the Melrose. She soon realizes that Evie has given her a wrong number, but drives anyway to Melrose and meets Evie with her friend Astrid. When Tracy says that she can't afford anything there, Evie and her friend Astrid smile at her. These demonstrate to Tracy the theft of individual items. Tracy is scared at first and leaves the shop. By chance, she has the opportunity to steal a wallet. She uses this and impresses Evie. The three girls immediately set off to go shopping together with the stolen money.
From then on, Tracy's transformation begins. She now belongs to the clique, drinks alcohol, smokes, gets pierced , swallows LSD and cuts herself due to the bad relationship with her father and other problems. Her mother begins to despair of her. Tracy is no longer the good daughter, she becomes aggressive, wears provocatively tight clothes and has fun with boys. With Evie commits thefts and their school grades are getting worse. Evie's guardian , her cousin Brooke, has problems of her own; therefore the caring Mel lets the apparently poor and needy orphan Evie live with them. But after a while the situation escalates . Mel himself doesn't know what to do next and collapses. She asks Tracy's father for help, but he does not realize the seriousness of the situation. Mel demands that Evie live with Brooke again, as Brooke is back in town. Tracy is also in favor of Evie living at home again from now on. Tracy herself also notices more and more that she is drifting away because she is supposed to repeat the seventh grade. She underpins this in a scene with the words: "I don't even know how 'photographer' is spelled anymore." Evie then turns away from Tracy and ignores her. When Tracy comes home, she meets Brooke, Mel and Evie in the living room . Evie has confessed everything and revealed the hiding place of the stolen property, but kept silent about the fact that she herself was the instigator . Brooke is now accusing Tracy. She announces that she will move out of town with Evie because Tracy is bad for Evie. Tracy collapses in despair when she realizes how mendacious her apparent friend Evie is. Mel, however, sticks to her daughter. At the end she takes the crying Tracy in her arms.
The final scene shows Tracy, now dressed relatively normally again, screaming loudly on a carousel .
Reviews
“A youth drama about puberty , disorientation and self-discovery, desperately trying to find authenticity . The problems of young people are grossly exaggerated, the powerlessness of the legal guardians is questioned too little. "
Awards
Holly Hunter was nominated for an Oscar in 2003 for Best Supporting Actress. Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood were nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress in a Drama that same year .
Catherine Hardwicke won the Director's Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival .
Web links
- Thirteen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Article by Catherine Hardwicke on the making of the film at Movienet.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for thirteen . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Thirteen. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 21, 2017 .