Thirteen

The film is an autobiography because the story is about Nikki's life when she was thirteen and about others teenagers. The script was written in six days. The film deals with sex, alcohol, and drugs. The story is about Tracy, who is a young thirteen year old girl. She is very educated and responsible. She always keeps up with her studies and she has two friends just like her. Her father hardly ever goes to visit her and for this reason sometimes she is very sad. Her mother "Mel" allows friends and her ex boyfriend to live in their house without paying rent. Tracy is really upset about family's problems and she begins to hurt herself by cutting her wrists. At her school, some girls tease for her way of dressing saying that she wears little girls’ clothes. However, she wants to be like the popular girls, led by leader Evie Zamora. Tracy wants to grasp Evie's attention, so she tries to be friends with the girls by changing her style and begins to drift away from her real friends. She begins to be rebel and be disrespectful. She even begins to steal to impress to Evie. Finally Trace invites her new friend Evie to live with her and Mel. Everything was fine for them because Tracy had fun with Evie, they went out together, they drank alcohol, consumed drugs and had sex with differents guys. Evie's cousin discovered that Evie had drugs and wento to Tracy's home but Evie lied and invented that those drugs were Tracy’s. As a result, Evie left the city with her cousin and Mel discovered that Tracy had some cuts on her wrists.

Directed by Catherine Hardwicke

Produced by Jeff Levy-Hinte

Michael London

Written by Catherine Hardwicke

Nikki Reed
Starring Evan Rachel Wood

Holly Hunter

Nikki Reed

Jeremy Sisto

Cinematography Elliot David

Editing by Nancy Richardson

From: wikipedia.com