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* DrugsAreBad: Tracy desperately wants to be popular, and will do anything to gain popularity, including hardcore drugs. By the end of the film, she realizes the damaging effects that the drugs have done to her, and her family.
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* DrugsAreBad: Tracy desperately wants to be popular, and will do anything to gain popularity, including hardcore drugs. By the end of the film, she realizes the damaging effects that the drugs have done to her, and her family.
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* FilleFatale: Picks it up from Evie, but it less comfortable about going after ''considerably'' older men.
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* FilleFatale: Picks it up from Evie, but it is less comfortable about going after ''considerably'' older men.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: She is this with Noel and Yumi, and eventually [[spoiler: Evie]]
* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: At first, when Tracy tries to befriend Evie.
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* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: At first, when Tracy tries to befriend Evie.
* TheCorrupter: She corrupts Tracy into a foul-mouthed sociopathic drug addict.
* EvilFormerFriend: Evie could be seen as this by the end of the film.
* EverybodyMustGetStoned: Evie thinks this, and she, Tracy, and a few other kids get high in the park.
* TheCorrupter: She corrupts Tracy into a foul-mouthed sociopathic drug addict.
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* EvilFormerFriend: Evie could be seen as this by the end of the film.
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* RiddleForTheAges: The veracity of her ever-changing claims of abuse, and most of all the scars on her back.
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* FilleFatale: Picks it up from Evie, but it less comfortable about going after ''considerably'' older men.
* GoodGirlGoneBad: As she's drawn into Evie's orbit.
* BrokenPedestal: To Tracy and her family. Tracy goes from idolizing and adoring her best friend and surrogate sister to despising her. Mason begins the film infatuated with her, but can't even stand to flirt with her once the extent of her corruption of his sister becomes apparent. And Mel, whose heart bleeds for the downtrodden victim Evie presents herself as, removes her from the family home when Evie's lies and toxic influence become too much to deal with.
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* RiddleForTheAges: The veracity of her ever-changing claims of abuse, and most of all the scars on her back.
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* PoisonousFriend: Starts out as this. Superficial, drinking, smoking, manipulative, sleeping around and coming up with lots of crazy ideas with dangerous teenage nonsense, Evie is the epitome of this from any parent's point of view. As the movie progresses, it's debatable whether she or formerly innocent Tracy is the more toxic influence.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Halfway through the film, Tracy seems to be borderline psychotic, most notably during her famous mantra of "No bra, no panties," which she says to her mother, after Melanie tells Tracy that she's "really starting to lose it". She also shows signs of being troubled far before Evie enters the picture.
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* AgeAppropriateAngst: She's dealing with things that no 13 year old should, and is obviously confused and upset at the situations going on around her.
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* DawsonCasting: Subverted. Evan Rachel Wood was 15 during filming, while the rest of the child cast members were between ages 13 and 14. She is even older than Brady Corbet who played Mason, her older brother.
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* DrugsAreBad: Tracy desperately wants to be popular, and will do anything to gain popularity, including hardcore drugs. By the end of the film, she realizes the damaging affects that the drugs have done to her, and her family.
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* EtTuBrute: Tracy has this reaction by the end of the film, after she realized Evie told Melanie and Brooke about their "hiding places" for their drugs and stolen money. Tracy gets all the blame, while Evie gets off somewhat scottfree.
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* EtTuBrute: Tracy has this reaction by the end of the film, after she realized Evie told Melanie and Brooke about their "hiding places" for their drugs and stolen money. Tracy gets all the blame, while Evie gets off somewhat scottfree.scot-free.
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* FishOutOfWater: Tracy is this when she first decides to take the bus to Melrose, and go "shopping" with Evie and Astrid.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Inverted. In the beginning of the film Tracy starts off as this (before befriending Evie), Evie) and tries to keep up this act around adults. But as the movie unfolds, she completely abandons this trope all together.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Melanie desperately wants to believe that Tracy is still the same girl who used to "play with Barbies" during the whole film.
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* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Melanie desperately wants to believe that JerkassHasAPoint: By the end of the movie, Tracy is still has become a drug-addicted, foul-mouthed twerp. But she wasn't wrong to be upset over the same girl things in her life she has to go through despite being a teen (i.e., her mother making poor money decisions, her father being flaky, etc). She was also justified in being mad at Evie for not taking her part in the earlier debauchery, as it was Evie who used introduced her to "play with Barbies" during the whole film.it.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Another ambiguouity trope surrounding this mysterious character. Evie's last name is hispanic/latino and her actress Nikki Reed has Native American ancestry, but her ethnicit is never explicitly stated.
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* ConflictingLoyalty: Averted. Evie has no problem selling Tracy out, and pretending like she doesn't exist by the end of the film, leaving Tracy with no friends and a bad reputation.
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* PoisonousFriend: Starts out as this. Superficial, drinking, smoking, manipulative, sleeping around and coming up with lots of crazy ideas with dangerous teenage nonsense, Evie is the epitome of this from any parents point of view. As the movie progresses, it's debatable whether she or formerly innocent Tracy is the more toxic influence.
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* PoisonousFriend: Starts out as this. Superficial, drinking, smoking, manipulative, sleeping around and coming up with lots of crazy ideas with dangerous teenage nonsense, Evie is the epitome of this from any parents parent's point of view. As the movie progresses, it's debatable whether she or formerly innocent Tracy is the more toxic influence.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: This doesn't kick in for him until halfway through the film, where he accidentally hits on his own sister. He seems horrified to see his 13 year old sister sporting a belly button ring, and a thong.
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* CompetenceZone: He's only a year or two older than Tracey, but given a lot more leeway and trusted to handle more.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Kind of. He does admit that he thinks Evie is the "hottest girl in school", but as the movie goes on he abandons this thought all together after he finds out what an awful person she is. The only real one on one action they have is when Evie flashes him.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Kind of. He does admit that he thinks Evie is the "hottest girl in school", but as the movie goes on he abandons this thought all together after he finds out what an awful person she is. The only real one on one action they have is when Evie flashes him.
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* DoggedNiceGuy: Kind of. He does admit that he thinks Evie is the "hottest girl in school", but as the movie goeson on, he abandons this thought all together after he finds out what an awful person she is. The only real one on one action they have is when Evie flashes him.
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* OnlySaneMan: Of the Freeland family. Between Tracey's spiraling out, Mel's addiction issue/taste in boyfriends, and their Dad walking out, Mason tends to behave the most rationally.
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* HandHidingSleeves: Due to her [[SelfHarm cutting]], she constantly is seen wearing long sleeves. Even before befriending Evie, she hides her wrist with a sweat band.
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!Tracy Freeland
-->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EvanRachelWood
* AgeAppropriateAngst: She's dealing with things that no 13 year old should, and is obviously confused and upset at the situations going on around her.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Mason thinks she is this.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Halfway through the film, Tracy seems to be borderline psychotic, most notably during her famous mantra of "No bra, no panties," which she says to her mother, after Melanie tells Tracy that she's "really starting to lose it". She also shows signs of being troubled far before Evie enters the picture.
* AuthorAvatar: Nikki Reed based Tracy off of herself at that age.
* BetaBitch: Becomes this to Evie, after ousting Evie's friend Astrid.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Zig-zagged, as she's not entirely [[{{Wangst}} wangsty]], many of her gripes and struggles are relevant. But even pre-corruption, she can be pretty snotty to her mom.
* BrokenBird: Tracy could be seen as this by the end of the movie.
* CommonalityConnection: Despite Evie being the more straightforward "bad girl" to Tracey's "good girl", part of the two girls' bond is that they both have traumatic pasts and seek refuge in relationships outside of their families.
* DawsonCasting: Subverted. Evan Rachel Wood was 15 during filming, while the rest of the child cast members were between ages 13 and 14. She is even older than Brady Corbet who played Mason, her older brother.
* DisappearedDad: Melanie and her husband divorced sometime before the film, and he doesn't seem interested in his former family at all. Tracy blatantly reminds him of this by stating "Dad, do you even remember what the last thing we did together was?", to which he responds by taking a phone call, and calling her a "client", and walking away.
* DrugsAreBad: Tracy desperately wants to be popular, and will do anything to gain popularity, including hardcore drugs. By the end of the film, she realizes the damaging affects that the drugs have done to her, and her family.
** Ironically, she despises her mother's boyfriend for being a recovering addict.
* EtTuBrute: Tracy has this reaction by the end of the film, after she realized Evie told Melanie and Brooke about their "hiding places" for their drugs and stolen money. Tracy gets all the blame, while Evie gets off somewhat scottfree.
* EvilFormerFriend: Tracy's friends, Noel and Yumi may see her as this.
* FishOutOfWater: Tracy is this when she first decides to take the bus to Melrose, and go "shopping" with Evie and Astrid.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: She is the foolish sibling, to Mason's responsible.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Inverted. In the beginning of the film Tracy starts off as this (before befriending Evie), and tries to keep up this act around adults. But as the movie unfolds, she completely abandons this trope all together.
* HandHidingSleeves: Due to her [[SelfHarm cutting]], she constantly is seen wearing long sleeves. Even before befriending Evie, she hides her wrist with a sweat band.
* HiddenDepths: At the beginning of the film, Tracy is a very talented poet. By the end of the film, one of her teachers said that "She was one of her best students", until she became friends with Evie.
* InWithTheInCrowd: As stated above, Tracy desperately wants to be popular, and does anything to gain popularity.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Melanie desperately wants to believe that Tracy is still the same girl who used to "play with Barbies" during the whole film.
* JoinsToFitIn: Tracy steals a women's pocketbook, and uses that to fit in.
* LittleMissBadass: Tracy tries to come off as one several times throughout the film.
* MadnessMantra: Her infamous mantra of "no bra, no panties" is a perfect example of one
* MiddleSchool: As the film's title states, Tracy and Evie are thirteen years old, and in 7th grade.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The scene at the end of the film, where Tracy is on a merry-go-round, could be seen as this.
* NaiveNewcomer: Tracy is this, before Evie introduces her to the world of petty crime, sex, and drugs.
* OddCouple: Subverted. Tracy and Evie seem like this at first, but by the middle of the film, they are best friends.
* ReallyGetsAround: Tracy has, or at least tries to have intimate relationships with multiple people.
* TheScream: Tracy has one at the very last scene of the film.
* SelfHarm: Tracy cuts her arm with a razor as a way to deal with all the stress in her life. You can tell she started cutting before the events of the film, because she constantly wears a sweatband on her wrist, and long sleeves, long before she befriends Evie.
* SexAsRiteOfPassage: After Tracy has sex with Javi, Evie seems to fully accept her into her group of friends.
* SmokingIsCool: Even before she forms a friendship with Evie, Tracy begins to smoke one of her mom's cigarettes to look cool.
* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: About halfway through the film, Tracy and Evie begin speaking in an incoherent language, obviously to hide things from Mel.
* TeensAreMonsters: Tracy used to be a sweet kid, but after she befriends Evie, she starts to act so much like Evie, it's clear she's become a different person.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Gradually throughout the film and thanks to Evie's influence, she devolves from a kind, decent young woman to a rude, disrespectful, bitchy twerp.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Even before befriending Evie, she writes dark poetry and smokes.
* TheUnfavorite: Tracy thinks she is this, when she tearfully tells Melanie, "Mason said you wanted me to move in with dad. You don't want me. You don't want me," to which Melanie wholeheartedly denies, and tells Tracy that she loves her and Mason "more than anything in the world".
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Tracy is only 13 years old, but dresses like she's 20 years old.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: She is this with Noel and Yumi, and eventually [[spoiler: Evie]]
* TheWoobie: After everything that's happened to her, Tracy could be seen as this to some viewers.
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-->'''Portrayed By''' Creator/NikkiReed
!Evie Zamora
* AbusiveParents: Evie claims to have an abusive uncle, which is confirmed via a newspaper clipping.
* AlphaBitch: Evie is this at school, and is admired and trailed after by boys and girls alike.
* AmbiguouslyBi: She seems to have quite the hots for Tracy and passionately kisses Mel on the mouth. Of course, she still has a lot of guys to fool around with.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Another ambiguouity trope surrounding this mysterious character. Evie's last name is hispanic/latino and her actress Nikki Reed has Native American ancestry, but her ethnicit is never explicitly stated.
* BrokenBird: Evie is definitely one.
* BrosBeforeHoes: Averted, Evie is implied to have hooked up with Tracey's crush Javi.
* TheCharmer: Both to men, and the Freeland family, whom she wins over pretty quickly initially.
* ConflictingLoyalty: Averted. Evie has no problem selling Tracy out, and pretending like she doesn't exist by the end of the film, leaving Tracy with no friends and a bad reputation.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: One could be forgiven for seeing Evie as a promiscuous opportunist, but a lot of her motivations derive from a longing for love an acceptance.
* DrugsAreGood: Evie has this mentality throughout the film.
* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: At first, when Tracy tries to befriend Evie.
* TheCorrupter: She corrupts Tracy into a foul-mouthed sociopathic drug addict.
* EvilFormerFriend: Evie could be seen as this by the end of the film.
* EverybodyMustGetStoned: Evie thinks this, and she, Tracy, and a few other kids get high in the park.
* EtTuBrute: Seems to feel betrayed by Tracey and Melanie after she's kicked out of their house, resulting in her selling Tracey out.
* FilleFatale: She knows exactly what boys/men want.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Evie seems to completely forget that she "invited" Tracy to go shopping in Melrose in the beginning of the film.
* FreudianExcuse: Evie claims that she was sexually abused to Mel.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Evie thinks this when she and Tracy are making out in her room.
* HighSchoolHustler: Well, in this case it would be a middle school hustler, but Evie is definitely this.
* LittleMissBadass: More so than Tracy.
* ManipulativeBitch: Evie is definitely one.
* MissingMom: With only the information that Evie's mom is a "crack whore", it's presumed that she's completely out of Evie's life.
* OddFriendship: She forms one with Tracy in the beginning of the film.
* PetTheDog: She's surprisingly tender when she discovers Tracey has been cutting.
* PoisonousFriend: Starts out as this. Superficial, drinking, smoking, manipulative, sleeping around and coming up with lots of crazy ideas with dangerous teenage nonsense, Evie is the epitome of this from any parents point of view. As the movie progresses, it's debatable whether she or formerly innocent Tracy is the more toxic influence.
* ReallyGetsAround: Both she and Tracy have sex with different people, and even try to have a threesome during the film.
* RememberThatYouTrustMe: After Evie rats on Tracy, she tells her that she didn't have a choice, and that she loves her. We don't know if this is true or not, considering how much Evie lies and manipulates people.
* SlumberPartyPloy: Uses this a bunch.
* SmokingIsCool: Evie glamorizes smoking and drugs throughout the film.
* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: Evie and Tracy start speaking in an incoherent language in the middle of the film, obviously to hide things from Mel.
* TeensAreMonsters
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Tracy wouldn't have become such a sociopath, a drug addict or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a once straight A student turned grade repeater]] if it weren't for Evie.
* TroublingUnChildlikeBehavior
* TheWoobie: Makes herself seem like one when she's telling Melanie about what happened to her as a child.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Both she and Tracy are only 13 years old, but dress like they're 20.
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[[folder:Mason]]
-->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BradyCorbet
!Mason Freeland
* BigBrotherBully: Could be seen as this several times throughout the film.
* BigBrotherInstinct: This doesn't kick in for him until halfway through the film, where he accidentally hits on his own sister. He seems horrified to see his 13 year old sister sporting a belly button ring, and a thong.
** In a deleted scene during Tracy's intervention, he gives her a hug after finding out what she and Evie had really been doing.
* CompetenceZone: He's only a year or two older than Tracey, but given a lot more leeway and trusted to handle more.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Kind of. He does admit that he thinks Evie is the "hottest girl in school", but as the movie goes on he abandons this thought all together after he finds out what an awful person she is. The only real one on one action they have is when Evie flashes him.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Could be seen as the responsible sibling, to Tracy's foolish.
* OnlySaneMan: Of the Freeland family. Between Tracey's spiraling out, Mel's addiction issue/taste in boyfriends, and their Dad walking out, Mason tends to behave the most rationally.
* TheUnfairSex: Inverted. Mason doesn't get in as much trouble as Tracy for doing drugs, because he only smokes pot, and Melanie knows about it.
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[[folder:Melanie]]
-->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/HollyHunter
!Melanie Freeland
* AdultsAreUseless: Averted, only until the end. Melanie only gets Tracy free from Evie, only after she realizes how toxic of a person Evie is.
* CoolBigSis: Evie say that Mel is more like this than a mother.
* FormerTeenRebel: Implied to be this, which is why she overlooks a lot of her kids mischief.
* FunctionalAddict: Implied to be a recovering alcoholic and/or addict, who frequently attends AA meetings and is dating another recovering addict.
* GrewASpine: Mel finally stands up to Tracy, halfway through the film.
* IllegalGuardian: Subverted, even though Melanie is in no way Evie's guardian, Evie spends more time at the Freeland's house than she does her own.
* MamaBear: Melanie defends Tracy when Brooke is making it sound like Tracy was the one who was the bad influence on Evie.
* MissingMom: Melanie tells Evie that she didn't have a mom when she was Evie's age.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Evie, albiet reluctantly.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Tracey hates [[YoureNotMyFather Brady]], who frequently spends the night.
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!Tracy Freeland
-->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/EvanRachelWood
* AgeAppropriateAngst: She's dealing with things that no 13 year old should, and is obviously confused and upset at the situations going on around her.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Mason thinks she is this.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Halfway through the film, Tracy seems to be borderline psychotic, most notably during her famous mantra of "No bra, no panties," which she says to her mother, after Melanie tells Tracy that she's "really starting to lose it". She also shows signs of being troubled far before Evie enters the picture.
* AuthorAvatar: Nikki Reed based Tracy off of herself at that age.
* BetaBitch: Becomes this to Evie, after ousting Evie's friend Astrid.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Zig-zagged, as she's not entirely [[{{Wangst}} wangsty]], many of her gripes and struggles are relevant. But even pre-corruption, she can be pretty snotty to her mom.
* BrokenBird: Tracy could be seen as this by the end of the movie.
* CommonalityConnection: Despite Evie being the more straightforward "bad girl" to Tracey's "good girl", part of the two girls' bond is that they both have traumatic pasts and seek refuge in relationships outside of their families.
* DawsonCasting: Subverted. Evan Rachel Wood was 15 during filming, while the rest of the child cast members were between ages 13 and 14. She is even older than Brady Corbet who played Mason, her older brother.
* DisappearedDad: Melanie and her husband divorced sometime before the film, and he doesn't seem interested in his former family at all. Tracy blatantly reminds him of this by stating "Dad, do you even remember what the last thing we did together was?", to which he responds by taking a phone call, and calling her a "client", and walking away.
* DrugsAreBad: Tracy desperately wants to be popular, and will do anything to gain popularity, including hardcore drugs. By the end of the film, she realizes the damaging affects that the drugs have done to her, and her family.
** Ironically, she despises her mother's boyfriend for being a recovering addict.
* EtTuBrute: Tracy has this reaction by the end of the film, after she realized Evie told Melanie and Brooke about their "hiding places" for their drugs and stolen money. Tracy gets all the blame, while Evie gets off somewhat scottfree.
* EvilFormerFriend: Tracy's friends, Noel and Yumi may see her as this.
* FishOutOfWater: Tracy is this when she first decides to take the bus to Melrose, and go "shopping" with Evie and Astrid.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: She is the foolish sibling, to Mason's responsible.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Inverted. In the beginning of the film Tracy starts off as this (before befriending Evie), and tries to keep up this act around adults. But as the movie unfolds, she completely abandons this trope all together.
* HandHidingSleeves: Due to her [[SelfHarm cutting]], she constantly is seen wearing long sleeves. Even before befriending Evie, she hides her wrist with a sweat band.
* HiddenDepths: At the beginning of the film, Tracy is a very talented poet. By the end of the film, one of her teachers said that "She was one of her best students", until she became friends with Evie.
* InWithTheInCrowd: As stated above, Tracy desperately wants to be popular, and does anything to gain popularity.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Melanie desperately wants to believe that Tracy is still the same girl who used to "play with Barbies" during the whole film.
* JoinsToFitIn: Tracy steals a women's pocketbook, and uses that to fit in.
* LittleMissBadass: Tracy tries to come off as one several times throughout the film.
* MadnessMantra: Her infamous mantra of "no bra, no panties" is a perfect example of one
* MiddleSchool: As the film's title states, Tracy and Evie are thirteen years old, and in 7th grade.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The scene at the end of the film, where Tracy is on a merry-go-round, could be seen as this.
* NaiveNewcomer: Tracy is this, before Evie introduces her to the world of petty crime, sex, and drugs.
* OddCouple: Subverted. Tracy and Evie seem like this at first, but by the middle of the film, they are best friends.
* ReallyGetsAround: Tracy has, or at least tries to have intimate relationships with multiple people.
* TheScream: Tracy has one at the very last scene of the film.
* SelfHarm: Tracy cuts her arm with a razor as a way to deal with all the stress in her life. You can tell she started cutting before the events of the film, because she constantly wears a sweatband on her wrist, and long sleeves, long before she befriends Evie.
* SexAsRiteOfPassage: After Tracy has sex with Javi, Evie seems to fully accept her into her group of friends.
* SmokingIsCool: Even before she forms a friendship with Evie, Tracy begins to smoke one of her mom's cigarettes to look cool.
* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: About halfway through the film, Tracy and Evie begin speaking in an incoherent language, obviously to hide things from Mel.
* TeensAreMonsters: Tracy used to be a sweet kid, but after she befriends Evie, she starts to act so much like Evie, it's clear she's become a different person.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Gradually throughout the film and thanks to Evie's influence, she devolves from a kind, decent young woman to a rude, disrespectful, bitchy twerp.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Even before befriending Evie, she writes dark poetry and smokes.
* TheUnfavorite: Tracy thinks she is this, when she tearfully tells Melanie, "Mason said you wanted me to move in with dad. You don't want me. You don't want me," to which Melanie wholeheartedly denies, and tells Tracy that she loves her and Mason "more than anything in the world".
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Tracy is only 13 years old, but dresses like she's 20 years old.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: She is this with Noel and Yumi, and eventually [[spoiler: Evie]]
* TheWoobie: After everything that's happened to her, Tracy could be seen as this to some viewers.
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[[folder:Evie]]
-->'''Portrayed By''' Creator/NikkiReed
!Evie Zamora
* AbusiveParents: Evie claims to have an abusive uncle, which is confirmed via a newspaper clipping.
* AlphaBitch: Evie is this at school, and is admired and trailed after by boys and girls alike.
* AmbiguouslyBi: She seems to have quite the hots for Tracy and passionately kisses Mel on the mouth. Of course, she still has a lot of guys to fool around with.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Another ambiguouity trope surrounding this mysterious character. Evie's last name is hispanic/latino and her actress Nikki Reed has Native American ancestry, but her ethnicit is never explicitly stated.
* BrokenBird: Evie is definitely one.
* BrosBeforeHoes: Averted, Evie is implied to have hooked up with Tracey's crush Javi.
* TheCharmer: Both to men, and the Freeland family, whom she wins over pretty quickly initially.
* ConflictingLoyalty: Averted. Evie has no problem selling Tracy out, and pretending like she doesn't exist by the end of the film, leaving Tracy with no friends and a bad reputation.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: One could be forgiven for seeing Evie as a promiscuous opportunist, but a lot of her motivations derive from a longing for love an acceptance.
* DrugsAreGood: Evie has this mentality throughout the film.
* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: At first, when Tracy tries to befriend Evie.
* TheCorrupter: She corrupts Tracy into a foul-mouthed sociopathic drug addict.
* EvilFormerFriend: Evie could be seen as this by the end of the film.
* EverybodyMustGetStoned: Evie thinks this, and she, Tracy, and a few other kids get high in the park.
* EtTuBrute: Seems to feel betrayed by Tracey and Melanie after she's kicked out of their house, resulting in her selling Tracey out.
* FilleFatale: She knows exactly what boys/men want.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Evie seems to completely forget that she "invited" Tracy to go shopping in Melrose in the beginning of the film.
* FreudianExcuse: Evie claims that she was sexually abused to Mel.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Evie thinks this when she and Tracy are making out in her room.
* HighSchoolHustler: Well, in this case it would be a middle school hustler, but Evie is definitely this.
* LittleMissBadass: More so than Tracy.
* ManipulativeBitch: Evie is definitely one.
* MissingMom: With only the information that Evie's mom is a "crack whore", it's presumed that she's completely out of Evie's life.
* OddFriendship: She forms one with Tracy in the beginning of the film.
* PetTheDog: She's surprisingly tender when she discovers Tracey has been cutting.
* PoisonousFriend: Starts out as this. Superficial, drinking, smoking, manipulative, sleeping around and coming up with lots of crazy ideas with dangerous teenage nonsense, Evie is the epitome of this from any parents point of view. As the movie progresses, it's debatable whether she or formerly innocent Tracy is the more toxic influence.
* ReallyGetsAround: Both she and Tracy have sex with different people, and even try to have a threesome during the film.
* RememberThatYouTrustMe: After Evie rats on Tracy, she tells her that she didn't have a choice, and that she loves her. We don't know if this is true or not, considering how much Evie lies and manipulates people.
* SlumberPartyPloy: Uses this a bunch.
* SmokingIsCool: Evie glamorizes smoking and drugs throughout the film.
* SuddenlyFluentInGibberish: Evie and Tracy start speaking in an incoherent language in the middle of the film, obviously to hide things from Mel.
* TeensAreMonsters
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Tracy wouldn't have become such a sociopath, a drug addict or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a once straight A student turned grade repeater]] if it weren't for Evie.
* TroublingUnChildlikeBehavior
* TheWoobie: Makes herself seem like one when she's telling Melanie about what happened to her as a child.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Both she and Tracy are only 13 years old, but dress like they're 20.
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[[folder:Mason]]
-->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/BradyCorbet
!Mason Freeland
* BigBrotherBully: Could be seen as this several times throughout the film.
* BigBrotherInstinct: This doesn't kick in for him until halfway through the film, where he accidentally hits on his own sister. He seems horrified to see his 13 year old sister sporting a belly button ring, and a thong.
** In a deleted scene during Tracy's intervention, he gives her a hug after finding out what she and Evie had really been doing.
* CompetenceZone: He's only a year or two older than Tracey, but given a lot more leeway and trusted to handle more.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Kind of. He does admit that he thinks Evie is the "hottest girl in school", but as the movie goes on he abandons this thought all together after he finds out what an awful person she is. The only real one on one action they have is when Evie flashes him.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Could be seen as the responsible sibling, to Tracy's foolish.
* OnlySaneMan: Of the Freeland family. Between Tracey's spiraling out, Mel's addiction issue/taste in boyfriends, and their Dad walking out, Mason tends to behave the most rationally.
* TheUnfairSex: Inverted. Mason doesn't get in as much trouble as Tracy for doing drugs, because he only smokes pot, and Melanie knows about it.
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[[folder:Melanie]]
-->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/HollyHunter
!Melanie Freeland
* AdultsAreUseless: Averted, only until the end. Melanie only gets Tracy free from Evie, only after she realizes how toxic of a person Evie is.
* CoolBigSis: Evie say that Mel is more like this than a mother.
* FormerTeenRebel: Implied to be this, which is why she overlooks a lot of her kids mischief.
* FunctionalAddict: Implied to be a recovering alcoholic and/or addict, who frequently attends AA meetings and is dating another recovering addict.
* GrewASpine: Mel finally stands up to Tracy, halfway through the film.
* IllegalGuardian: Subverted, even though Melanie is in no way Evie's guardian, Evie spends more time at the Freeland's house than she does her own.
* MamaBear: Melanie defends Tracy when Brooke is making it sound like Tracy was the one who was the bad influence on Evie.
* MissingMom: Melanie tells Evie that she didn't have a mom when she was Evie's age.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Evie, albiet reluctantly.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Tracey hates [[YoureNotMyFather Brady]], who frequently spends the night.
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