Synopsis:
The unhinged joy and high angst of hitting modern adolescence with full force is explored with honesty, clarity, and passion in THIRTEEN. The story follows the transformation of Tracy (EVAN RACHEL WOOD), who begins as a promising, pig-tailed student still playing with teddy bears and Barbie dolls. When Tracy enters the hyper-sexualized, peer-pressure cooker of junior high, she witnesses the power and hipness of Evie Zamora (NIKKI REED, co-writer of the script), who has become widely known as the hottest chick in school. Ultra-popular, model-gorgeous, and bewitchingly snobby, Evie represents everything Tracy suddenly wants, and needs, to be.At first Tracy has no hope of being accepted into Evie's elite clique. She's got the wrong attitude, the wrong friends, and definitely the wrong look. Tracy learns to remake herself, step by step, into the ultimate ideal of a 2003 teen. She discovers how to do the makeup, the clothes, the hair, and the act.She cracks the code of popularity, gains Evie as a mercurial best friend, and even starts winning attention from boys. The further Tracy dives into premature adulthood, the higher the stakes get. She loses the closeness she once had with her hard-working mother (played by Oscar-winner HOLLY HUNTER), starts failing classes, and despite her seething hatred of her mother's ex-addict boyfriend (JEREMY SISTO), becomes a drug abuser herself. Despite it all Tracy is still THIRTEEN, caught in a whirlwind of emotion in which everything she does, everything she says, and all that she wants seems to matter in a huge way... and she still has her whole life in front of her.
© 2003 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.