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Actors: Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Andy Serkis
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about 13 Going on 30 |
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13-year-old Jenna Rink, desperately wants to be popular and a member of the arrogant clique--the six chicks. Her best friend is the chubby, slightly geeky Matt Flamhaff.
As she celebrates her 13th birthday, Matt gives her a hand-made doll house that features small pictures of Jenna, there is also a package of magic dust. Jenna wishes she was older, 30 to be exact. The Six Chicks clique have agreed to come to the Birthday party because Jenna will do homework for them. They wind up humiliating her which sets off a string of events....
Suddenly Jenna wakes up as the 30 years Jenna Rink. She is still mentally and emotionally a 13 year old but she is now inside of a possible future self. She is now a very successful magazine editor working for Poise Magazine. Her co-worker, a junior editor, is the grown up version of the head of the 6 Chicks. She quickly has to pretend she is all grown up and then slowly learns she has grown up to become a very superficial, unethical person. Through a somewhat believable coincidence she re-meets Matt (now played by Mark Ruffalo). To Jenna (Jennifer Garner) it was just yesterday that Matt was a chubby 13 year old. Now he is grown up and she finds out they have not seen each other for nearly 10 nears and they stopped being friends when they were 13.
--Christopher J. Jarmick, Resident Scholar
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A 13 year old girl wishes she could be 30. Her friend gives her a dollhouse and says she can make a wish. She wishes and then next day she wakes up as a 30 year old. She is now an editor of a fashion magazine and her friend is now getting married to another woman. She meets up with him and discovers she likes him and that they separated because she rejected him when she was 13. She then wants to return to her normal self, so she can change the future.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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Jenna (Garner) is a frustrated 13 year old, who in a desperate moment wishes to become thirty. The sparkly dust her best friend Matt offered her as part of her birthday present somehow performs the miracle and Jenna wakes up to find herself an established fashion editor and a sexy woman nearing her thirtieth birthday. From then on, she goes through stages of disbelief and aberration over the kind of person she has turned out to be.
--Anna Maria Delinasiou, Resident Scholar
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Jennifer Garner plays Jenna Rink, a 13-year old who is dying to grow up. She gets her wish on her 13th birthday, after a dismal party leaves her crying alone in a closet. She awakens "thirty, flirty and fabulous" - with a career as a hot NYC magazine editor, a fabulous apartment, great clothes, and a famous athlete as a boyfriend. As the movie progesses, though, Jenna finds that being thirty is much more than being "flirty and fabulous" - it's about being comfortable with who you are - not who others want you to be.
--Kate Linderman, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of 13 Going on 30 |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Kids:
- general coming of age story
Kind of comedy
- adult acting like child
How much humor v. drama
- Mostly humor, but some serious drama
Age group
- trouble in high school
Sexing?
- guy chasing
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- editor/publisher
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- (woman) skinny
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- writer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) skinny
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
Any profanity?
- None
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
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