Tretton

It's the first day of school and straight A-student Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) realizes that she's tired of hanging out with the smart crowd. She befriends Evie (Nikki Reed), the most popular girl in school, and soon they're best friends. But Evie is not as sweet as she looks and she quickly manipulates the young and naive Tracy into a spiral of theft, sex and self-mutilation. Tracy's mother (played exceptionally by Holly Hunter), who splits her time between hairdressing at home and a drug-abusing boyfriend, doesn't know how to handle her daughter's eruptions of anger and contempt. Fuelled by drugs and boiling emotions the spiral spins faster and faster until Tracy loses control completely.
Thirteen was written in only six days by first time director Catherine Hardwicke and Nikki Reed, who was 13 years old at the time. The role of Tracy is loosely based on Reed's own life and this is her first acting experience. Thirteen is
a phenomenal account of the contradictory feelings and frustration of being on the edge of adulthood. It is a ruthless and straight story about the teenagers of today, and it sheds light upon activities that most parents would be shocked to find out abouttheir own 13-year-olds.
IKA JOHANNESSON

Orig. titel
Thirteen: Medverkande
Holly Hunter, Nicki Reed,Evan Rachel Wood: Producent
Holly Hunter: Manus
Nicki Reed, Catherine Hardwicke: Foto
Elliot Davies: Musik
Mark Mothers-Baugh: Talat språk
English