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''Thirteen'' is a 2003 drama film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, who cowrote the screenplay with then-fifteen-year-old Creator/NikkiReed. The movie is intended to be partially autobiographical, as it shows what much of what Reed's life was like between the ages of twelve and thirteen. The movie deals with the experience of girls just barely out of their pre-teens and getting into situations that would be better handled by adults.
The plot revolves around Tracy Freeland (Creator/EvanRachelWood) struggling as an adolescent trying to become popular, then becoming popular only to find out that the cost to stay there in morality and self-worth to be too high. Reed co-stars as Evie, Tracy's ToxicFriendInfluence.
The film was produced independently and only picked up by Working Title Films after production had finished. Creator/HollyHunter, playing Tracy's mother Melanie, received UsefulNotes/AcademyAward and Golden Globe nominations for her her supporting role. Evan Rachel Wood also received a Golden Globe nomination.
Not to be confused with ''Theatre/{{Thirteen}}: The Musical''. Or ''13'', the 2010 English-language remake of ''Film/ThirteenTzameti''. Or the 1974 Creator/ShawBrothers action film, or the manga by Hideaki Sorachi, or the 2016 BBC TV series...
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Evie claims to have them, and it would make a lot of sense.
* AdultsAreUseless: Averted, but only at the very end: Tracy's mom essentially rescues her from Evie's influence, but until then played horrifyingly straight. Throughout the whole movie, Mel rarely disciplines her.
* TheAlcoholic: Mel is in recovery.
* AllMenArePerverts: Subverted - Tracy and Evie try to seduce Tracy's neighbor Luke, but he's understandably freaked out by the idea of sex with two thirteen-year-old girls, and kicks them out of his house.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Evie. Her last name is Latino/Hispanic ("Zamora"), but she's never identified as anything distinctively (and Nikki Reed herself ''isn't'' Latino/Hispanic, but Native American descent.)
* AuthorAvatar: The story is auto-biographical and the character of Tracy is modeled after co-author Nikki Reed, who is actually playing her own bad influence.
* BittersweetEnding: Tracy loses all her friends, is left with a bad reputation, and is held back in school, however she abandons her destructive lifestyle, makes amends with her mother, and presumably gets her act together.
* BrokenBird: Evie definitely, also Tracy could be seen as one.
* ConsummateLiar: Evie.
* CountryMatters: Used by Brooke against Tracy at the end of the film.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Evie has one of sorts; a striped halter top she wears she just slips down around her waist to form a "skirt".
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Pretty much [[DysfunctionJunction all of the main characters have one]] involving substance abuse, ParentalAbandonment (through both divorce and death), physical and sexual abuse and other undisclosed issues.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The "Desaturated" variant. As the situation with Tracy becomes more bleak and troubling, the colors of the film itself become more faded and pale, as opposed to the more vibrant colors used earlier on.
* DisappearedDad: Tracy and Mason's father, who is divorced from their mother, is an infrequent occurrence in both of his children's lives and [[JerkAss is not very invested in whatever is happening when he is around.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Using a gas duster to get high, it doesn't sound sexy and they show you just how not sexy it is. [[note]]Definitely TruthInTelevision: the girls discuss the so-called buzzing sound of "Wah! Wah! Wah!" going off in their heads from the inhalants, but the sound they hear is actually the sound of ''[[spoiler: [[NightmareFuel their brain cells popping, one by one.]]]]''[[/note]]
* EtTuBrute: Tracy has this reaction towards the end of the movie once realizing that [[spoiler: Evie]] sold her out on her dangerous activities and the "hiding places" of all her drugs and stolen money.
* EveryoneHasStandards: It's hinted that Luke is interested in Tracy and Evie. But when they [[spoiler: try and have a ''threesome'' with him, he's understandably freaked out and has to force ''them'' off ''him''.]]
* FilleFatale: Evie is very good at knowing what boys/men want.
* FishOutOfWater: When Tracy first meets up with Evie and her friends she is a very good example of this.
* FlippingTheBird: When sneaking out with one of the boys after Tracy tries to tell her not to, as she leaves, Evie flips her off.
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Tracy ends up becoming this after she tells Evie she can't live with her family and sends her back to her cousin. When she tries to hang out with her again the next day, she shuns her.
** To a lesser extent, Noel and Yumi are this to a newly popular Tracy.
* FreudianExcuse: Evie was [[RapeAsBackstory sexually]] and [[AbusiveParents physically]] abused by her Uncle as a child. [[KarmaHoudini He only ended up doing seven years for his crimes.]]
* FullNameUltimatum: ''"Tracy Louise Freeland! Conference time! Now!"''
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: That's how Evie feels about it.
* GrewASpine: Mel, who finally stands up to her wayward daughter midway through the film.
* HiddenDepths: Tracy displays this at the beginning of the movie, as she gets good grades and is even quite accomplished at poetry.
* HighSchoolHustler: Evie.
* {{Hypocrite}}: At the climax, Evie yells at Mel that she would not want to live in her house and claims that it stinks. This was after she had been a frequent (and eventual unwelcome) guest at their home and trying to manipulate her and Tracy into letting her move in with them. Plus, even if it was run-down, it was still in a much nicer neighborhood than Brooke's home, which was barely maintained and didn't even have a backyard.
** Mason, Tracy's older brother, was disgusted by their Dad and the lack of interest he had in Tracy's problems, but still accepted a wetsuit from him. When she asked where he got it, his response was "Fuck you."
* IncestSubtext: The scene where Mason checks out and catcalls a thong wearing, ass showing Tracy, and regrets it when she turns around and he realizes it’s his own sister.
* InWithTheInCrowd: After she "befriends" Evie, Tracy ends up this.
* IronicEcho: "Speak up, I can't hear you!" It was first used by Melanie to confront Tracy about her belly button ring and later used back by Tracy when her mother was speaking in a stunned whisper while confronting her about all of her behavior in the intervention.
* KarmaHoudini: Whereas Tracy ends up left behind in school, losing her real friends and with a bad reputation, Evie, who influenced her into becoming one of her "friends", gets to start over scot-free with her Aunt in Ojai.
* LittleMissBadass: Tracy ''tries'' to be this towards the girlfriends of the guys that she and Evie were screwing throughout the year once they angrily confronted her. The only reason the potentially dangerous situation did not escalate is because the school guards found them and broke it up. Unfortunately for Tracy, one of the girls [[OhCrap threatened that it wasn't over.]]
* MamaBear: Melanie Freeland protecting her daughter Tracy from Evie and her cousin.
* ManipulativeBitch: Evie. And even to a lesser extent, Tracy herself.
* MissingMom: Evie ''and'' Melanie.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The most common interpretion of Tracy's sky-high scream at the end.
* NaiveNewcomer: Tracy.
* NoAntagonist: Evie is the closest thing to a proper antagonist the film has. But as the film goes on, the girls become a bad influence on each other, blurring the lines on who the real toxic friend is.
* NoEnding: Though it's implied that Tracy got better (she's wearing normal clothes and overall has a "healthier" appearance).
* OneWordTitle: TitleByNumber, based on the protagonists' age.
* ParentalSubstitute: Mel's boyfriend, Brady, is this to the two teens, even though Tracy has little respect for him due to his past drug use and the fact that [[YoureNotMyFather he's not her father.]]
* PoisonousFriend [=/=] ToxicFriendInfluence: Evie, of course.
** Tracy ended up with this reputation at the end of the film. At one point, she waves at one of her original friend's mother, who in response turned her back on her and walked away (granted, this was after she witnessed her cursing out her mother in an earlier scene.)
* PrettyFreeloaders: Played with in regards to Birdie, Mel's recovering addict friend, and her young daughter. They weren't germane to the plot and spend much of the film in the way. Even Evie lampshades this when trying to convince Mel to let her move in, saying that Brooke would pay her "unlike the other freeloaders".
* ReallyGetsAround: Heavily implied with Evie.
* RememberThatYouTrustMe: Evie pretty much says this verbatim during Tracy's intervention.
* TheScream: By Tracy at the end.
* SelfHarm: Tracy deals with her stress by cutting her arms with a razor.
* SexAsRiteOfPassage: Evie seems to imply this to Tracy.
* SmokingIsCool & SmokingIsGlamorous
* TeensAreMonsters: Thievery, smoking, drinking, promiscuity, truancy, and, oh yeah, bullying. What's not to love?
* TestKiss: After a few drinks, Tracy and Evie practice kissing and it escalates into a makeout for a minute or two.
* TitleByNumber: OneWordTitle, based on the protagonists' age.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Boy howdy...
* TheUnfairSex: Inverted with Tracy and Mason; she gets in trouble for her drug usage and promiscuity, he also uses drugs, [[ValuesDissonance but it's okay since it's only weed and since their mother knows about it.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Tracy, who was initially a kind, innocent seventh-grader who played with Barbie dolls and wrote poetry.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Evie and Tracy's relationship with the black boys in the film. But mostly Evie.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Tracy is this with her former friends Noel, and Yumi. And eventually is this with Evie and her group by the end.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Tracy and Evie are 13, but look like they are at least 16.
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''Thirteen'' is a 2003 drama film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, who cowrote the screenplay with then-fifteen-year-old Creator/NikkiReed. The movie is intended to be partially autobiographical, as it shows what much of what Reed's life was like between the ages of twelve and thirteen. The movie deals with the experience of girls just barely out of their pre-teens and getting into situations that would be better handled by adults.
The plot revolves around Tracy Freeland (Creator/EvanRachelWood) struggling as an adolescent trying to become popular, then becoming popular only to find out that the cost to stay there in morality and self-worth to be too high. Reed co-stars as Evie, Tracy's ToxicFriendInfluence.
The film was produced independently and only picked up by Working Title Films after production had finished. Creator/HollyHunter, playing Tracy's mother Melanie, received UsefulNotes/AcademyAward and Golden Globe nominations for her her supporting role. Evan Rachel Wood also received a Golden Globe nomination.
Not to be confused with ''Theatre/{{Thirteen}}: The Musical''. Or ''13'', the 2010 English-language remake of ''Film/ThirteenTzameti''. Or the 1974 Creator/ShawBrothers action film, or the manga by Hideaki Sorachi, or the 2016 BBC TV series...
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Evie claims to have them, and it would make a lot of sense.
* AdultsAreUseless: Averted, but only at the very end: Tracy's mom essentially rescues her from Evie's influence, but until then played horrifyingly straight. Throughout the whole movie, Mel rarely disciplines her.
* TheAlcoholic: Mel is in recovery.
* AllMenArePerverts: Subverted - Tracy and Evie try to seduce Tracy's neighbor Luke, but he's understandably freaked out by the idea of sex with two thirteen-year-old girls, and kicks them out of his house.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Evie. Her last name is Latino/Hispanic ("Zamora"), but she's never identified as anything distinctively (and Nikki Reed herself ''isn't'' Latino/Hispanic, but Native American descent.)
* AuthorAvatar: The story is auto-biographical and the character of Tracy is modeled after co-author Nikki Reed, who is actually playing her own bad influence.
* BittersweetEnding: Tracy loses all her friends, is left with a bad reputation, and is held back in school, however she abandons her destructive lifestyle, makes amends with her mother, and presumably gets her act together.
* BrokenBird: Evie definitely, also Tracy could be seen as one.
* ConsummateLiar: Evie.
* CountryMatters: Used by Brooke against Tracy at the end of the film.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Evie has one of sorts; a striped halter top she wears she just slips down around her waist to form a "skirt".
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Pretty much [[DysfunctionJunction all of the main characters have one]] involving substance abuse, ParentalAbandonment (through both divorce and death), physical and sexual abuse and other undisclosed issues.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The "Desaturated" variant. As the situation with Tracy becomes more bleak and troubling, the colors of the film itself become more faded and pale, as opposed to the more vibrant colors used earlier on.
* DisappearedDad: Tracy and Mason's father, who is divorced from their mother, is an infrequent occurrence in both of his children's lives and [[JerkAss is not very invested in whatever is happening when he is around.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Using a gas duster to get high, it doesn't sound sexy and they show you just how not sexy it is. [[note]]Definitely TruthInTelevision: the girls discuss the so-called buzzing sound of "Wah! Wah! Wah!" going off in their heads from the inhalants, but the sound they hear is actually the sound of ''[[spoiler: [[NightmareFuel their brain cells popping, one by one.]]]]''[[/note]]
* EtTuBrute: Tracy has this reaction towards the end of the movie once realizing that [[spoiler: Evie]] sold her out on her dangerous activities and the "hiding places" of all her drugs and stolen money.
* EveryoneHasStandards: It's hinted that Luke is interested in Tracy and Evie. But when they [[spoiler: try and have a ''threesome'' with him, he's understandably freaked out and has to force ''them'' off ''him''.]]
* FilleFatale: Evie is very good at knowing what boys/men want.
* FishOutOfWater: When Tracy first meets up with Evie and her friends she is a very good example of this.
* FlippingTheBird: When sneaking out with one of the boys after Tracy tries to tell her not to, as she leaves, Evie flips her off.
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Tracy ends up becoming this after she tells Evie she can't live with her family and sends her back to her cousin. When she tries to hang out with her again the next day, she shuns her.
** To a lesser extent, Noel and Yumi are this to a newly popular Tracy.
* FreudianExcuse: Evie was [[RapeAsBackstory sexually]] and [[AbusiveParents physically]] abused by her Uncle as a child. [[KarmaHoudini He only ended up doing seven years for his crimes.]]
* FullNameUltimatum: ''"Tracy Louise Freeland! Conference time! Now!"''
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: That's how Evie feels about it.
* GrewASpine: Mel, who finally stands up to her wayward daughter midway through the film.
* HiddenDepths: Tracy displays this at the beginning of the movie, as she gets good grades and is even quite accomplished at poetry.
* HighSchoolHustler: Evie.
* {{Hypocrite}}: At the climax, Evie yells at Mel that she would not want to live in her house and claims that it stinks. This was after she had been a frequent (and eventual unwelcome) guest at their home and trying to manipulate her and Tracy into letting her move in with them. Plus, even if it was run-down, it was still in a much nicer neighborhood than Brooke's home, which was barely maintained and didn't even have a backyard.
** Mason, Tracy's older brother, was disgusted by their Dad and the lack of interest he had in Tracy's problems, but still accepted a wetsuit from him. When she asked where he got it, his response was "Fuck you."
* IncestSubtext: The scene where Mason checks out and catcalls a thong wearing, ass showing Tracy, and regrets it when she turns around and he realizes it’s his own sister.
* InWithTheInCrowd: After she "befriends" Evie, Tracy ends up this.
* IronicEcho: "Speak up, I can't hear you!" It was first used by Melanie to confront Tracy about her belly button ring and later used back by Tracy when her mother was speaking in a stunned whisper while confronting her about all of her behavior in the intervention.
* KarmaHoudini: Whereas Tracy ends up left behind in school, losing her real friends and with a bad reputation, Evie, who influenced her into becoming one of her "friends", gets to start over scot-free with her Aunt in Ojai.
* LittleMissBadass: Tracy ''tries'' to be this towards the girlfriends of the guys that she and Evie were screwing throughout the year once they angrily confronted her. The only reason the potentially dangerous situation did not escalate is because the school guards found them and broke it up. Unfortunately for Tracy, one of the girls [[OhCrap threatened that it wasn't over.]]
* MamaBear: Melanie Freeland protecting her daughter Tracy from Evie and her cousin.
* ManipulativeBitch: Evie. And even to a lesser extent, Tracy herself.
* MissingMom: Evie ''and'' Melanie.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The most common interpretion of Tracy's sky-high scream at the end.
* NaiveNewcomer: Tracy.
* NoAntagonist: Evie is the closest thing to a proper antagonist the film has. But as the film goes on, the girls become a bad influence on each other, blurring the lines on who the real toxic friend is.
* NoEnding: Though it's implied that Tracy got better (she's wearing normal clothes and overall has a "healthier" appearance).
* OneWordTitle: TitleByNumber, based on the protagonists' age.
* ParentalSubstitute: Mel's boyfriend, Brady, is this to the two teens, even though Tracy has little respect for him due to his past drug use and the fact that [[YoureNotMyFather he's not her father.]]
* PoisonousFriend [=/=] ToxicFriendInfluence: Evie, of course.
** Tracy ended up with this reputation at the end of the film. At one point, she waves at one of her original friend's mother, who in response turned her back on her and walked away (granted, this was after she witnessed her cursing out her mother in an earlier scene.)
* PrettyFreeloaders: Played with in regards to Birdie, Mel's recovering addict friend, and her young daughter. They weren't germane to the plot and spend much of the film in the way. Even Evie lampshades this when trying to convince Mel to let her move in, saying that Brooke would pay her "unlike the other freeloaders".
* ReallyGetsAround: Heavily implied with Evie.
* RememberThatYouTrustMe: Evie pretty much says this verbatim during Tracy's intervention.
* TheScream: By Tracy at the end.
* SelfHarm: Tracy deals with her stress by cutting her arms with a razor.
* SexAsRiteOfPassage: Evie seems to imply this to Tracy.
* SmokingIsCool & SmokingIsGlamorous
* TeensAreMonsters: Thievery, smoking, drinking, promiscuity, truancy, and, oh yeah, bullying. What's not to love?
* TestKiss: After a few drinks, Tracy and Evie practice kissing and it escalates into a makeout for a minute or two.
* TitleByNumber: OneWordTitle, based on the protagonists' age.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Boy howdy...
* TheUnfairSex: Inverted with Tracy and Mason; she gets in trouble for her drug usage and promiscuity, he also uses drugs, [[ValuesDissonance but it's okay since it's only weed and since their mother knows about it.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Tracy, who was initially a kind, innocent seventh-grader who played with Barbie dolls and wrote poetry.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Evie and Tracy's relationship with the black boys in the film. But mostly Evie.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Tracy is this with her former friends Noel, and Yumi. And eventually is this with Evie and her group by the end.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Tracy and Evie are 13, but look like they are at least 16.
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''Thirteen'' is a 2003 drama film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, who cowrote the screenplay with then-fifteen-year-old Creator/NikkiReed. The movie is intended to be partially autobiographical, as it shows what much of what Reed's life was like between the ages of twelve and thirteen. The movie deals with the experience of girls just barely out of their pre-teens and getting into situations that would be better handled by adults.
The plot revolves around Tracy Freeland (Creator/EvanRachelWood) struggling as an adolescent trying to become popular, then becoming popular only to find out that the cost to stay there in morality and self-worth to be too high. Reed co-stars as Evie, Tracy's ToxicFriendInfluence.
The film was produced independently and only picked up by Working Title Films after production had finished. Creator/HollyHunter, playing Tracy's mother Melanie, received UsefulNotes/AcademyAward and Golden Globe nominations for her her supporting role. Evan Rachel Wood also received a Golden Globe nomination.
Not to be confused with ''Theatre/{{Thirteen}}: The Musical''. Or ''13'', the 2010 English-language remake of ''Film/ThirteenTzameti''. Or the 1974 Creator/ShawBrothers action film, or the manga by Hideaki Sorachi, or the 2016 BBC TV series...
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Evie claims to have them, and it would make a lot of sense.
* AdultsAreUseless: Averted, but only at the very end: Tracy's mom essentially rescues her from Evie's influence, but until then played horrifyingly straight. Throughout the whole movie, Mel rarely disciplines her.
* TheAlcoholic: Mel is in recovery.
* AllMenArePerverts: Subverted - Tracy and Evie try to seduce Tracy's neighbor Luke, but he's understandably freaked out by the idea of sex with two thirteen-year-old girls, and kicks them out of his house.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Evie. Her last name is Latino/Hispanic ("Zamora"), but she's never identified as anything distinctively (and Nikki Reed herself ''isn't'' Latino/Hispanic, but Native American descent.)
* AuthorAvatar: The story is auto-biographical and the character of Tracy is modeled after co-author Nikki Reed, who is actually playing her own bad influence.
* BittersweetEnding: Tracy loses all her friends, is left with a bad reputation, and is held back in school, however she abandons her destructive lifestyle, makes amends with her mother, and presumably gets her act together.
* BrokenBird: Evie definitely, also Tracy could be seen as one.
* ConsummateLiar: Evie.
* CountryMatters: Used by Brooke against Tracy at the end of the film.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Evie has one of sorts; a striped halter top she wears she just slips down around her waist to form a "skirt".
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Pretty much [[DysfunctionJunction all of the main characters have one]] involving substance abuse, ParentalAbandonment (through both divorce and death), physical and sexual abuse and other undisclosed issues.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The "Desaturated" variant. As the situation with Tracy becomes more bleak and troubling, the colors of the film itself become more faded and pale, as opposed to the more vibrant colors used earlier on.
* DisappearedDad: Tracy and Mason's father, who is divorced from their mother, is an infrequent occurrence in both of his children's lives and [[JerkAss is not very invested in whatever is happening when he is around.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Using a gas duster to get high, it doesn't sound sexy and they show you just how not sexy it is. [[note]]Definitely TruthInTelevision: the girls discuss the so-called buzzing sound of "Wah! Wah! Wah!" going off in their heads from the inhalants, but the sound they hear is actually the sound of ''[[spoiler: [[NightmareFuel their brain cells popping, one by one.]]]]''[[/note]]
* EtTuBrute: Tracy has this reaction towards the end of the movie once realizing that [[spoiler: Evie]] sold her out on her dangerous activities and the "hiding places" of all her drugs and stolen money.
* EveryoneHasStandards: It's hinted that Luke is interested in Tracy and Evie. But when they [[spoiler: try and have a ''threesome'' with him, he's understandably freaked out and has to force ''them'' off ''him''.]]
* FilleFatale: Evie is very good at knowing what boys/men want.
* FishOutOfWater: When Tracy first meets up with Evie and her friends she is a very good example of this.
* FlippingTheBird: When sneaking out with one of the boys after Tracy tries to tell her not to, as she leaves, Evie flips her off.
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Tracy ends up becoming this after she tells Evie she can't live with her family and sends her back to her cousin. When she tries to hang out with her again the next day, she shuns her.
** To a lesser extent, Noel and Yumi are this to a newly popular Tracy.
* FreudianExcuse: Evie was [[RapeAsBackstory sexually]] and [[AbusiveParents physically]] abused by her Uncle as a child. [[KarmaHoudini He only ended up doing seven years for his crimes.]]
* FullNameUltimatum: ''"Tracy Louise Freeland! Conference time! Now!"''
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: That's how Evie feels about it.
* GrewASpine: Mel, who finally stands up to her wayward daughter midway through the film.
* HiddenDepths: Tracy displays this at the beginning of the movie, as she gets good grades and is even quite accomplished at poetry.
* HighSchoolHustler: Evie.
* {{Hypocrite}}: At the climax, Evie yells at Mel that she would not want to live in her house and claims that it stinks. This was after she had been a frequent (and eventual unwelcome) guest at their home and trying to manipulate her and Tracy into letting her move in with them. Plus, even if it was run-down, it was still in a much nicer neighborhood than Brooke's home, which was barely maintained and didn't even have a backyard.
** Mason, Tracy's older brother, was disgusted by their Dad and the lack of interest he had in Tracy's problems, but still accepted a wetsuit from him. When she asked where he got it, his response was "Fuck you."
* IncestSubtext: The scene where Mason checks out and catcalls a thong wearing, ass showing Tracy, and regrets it when she turns around and he realizes it’s his own sister.
* InWithTheInCrowd: After she "befriends" Evie, Tracy ends up this.
* IronicEcho: "Speak up, I can't hear you!" It was first used by Melanie to confront Tracy about her belly button ring and later used back by Tracy when her mother was speaking in a stunned whisper while confronting her about all of her behavior in the intervention.
* KarmaHoudini: Whereas Tracy ends up left behind in school, losing her real friends and with a bad reputation, Evie, who influenced her into becoming one of her "friends", gets to start over scot-free with her Aunt in Ojai.
* LittleMissBadass: Tracy ''tries'' to be this towards the girlfriends of the guys that she and Evie were screwing throughout the year once they angrily confronted her. The only reason the potentially dangerous situation did not escalate is because the school guards found them and broke it up. Unfortunately for Tracy, one of the girls [[OhCrap threatened that it wasn't over.]]
* MamaBear: Melanie Freeland protecting her daughter Tracy from Evie and her cousin.
* ManipulativeBitch: Evie. And even to a lesser extent, Tracy herself.
* MissingMom: Evie ''and'' Melanie.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The most common interpretion of Tracy's sky-high scream at the end.
* NaiveNewcomer: Tracy.
* NoAntagonist: Evie is the closest thing to a proper antagonist the film has. But as the film goes on, the girls become a bad influence on each other, blurring the lines on who the real toxic friend is.
* NoEnding: Though it's implied that Tracy got better (she's wearing normal clothes and overall has a "healthier" appearance).
* OneWordTitle: TitleByNumber, based on the protagonists' age.
* ParentalSubstitute: Mel's boyfriend, Brady, is this to the two teens, even though Tracy has little respect for him due to his past drug use and the fact that [[YoureNotMyFather he's not her father.]]
* PoisonousFriend [=/=] ToxicFriendInfluence: Evie, of course.
** Tracy ended up with this reputation at the end of the film. At one point, she waves at one of her original friend's mother, who in response turned her back on her and walked away (granted, this was after she witnessed her cursing out her mother in an earlier scene.)
* PrettyFreeloaders: Played with in regards to Birdie, Mel's recovering addict friend, and her young daughter. They weren't germane to the plot and spend much of the film in the way. Even Evie lampshades this when trying to convince Mel to let her move in, saying that Brooke would pay her "unlike the other freeloaders".
* ReallyGetsAround: Heavily implied with Evie.
* RememberThatYouTrustMe: Evie pretty much says this verbatim during Tracy's intervention.
* TheScream: By Tracy at the end.
* SelfHarm: Tracy deals with her stress by cutting her arms with a razor.
* SexAsRiteOfPassage: Evie seems to imply this to Tracy.
* SmokingIsCool & SmokingIsGlamorous
* TeensAreMonsters: Thievery, smoking, drinking, promiscuity, truancy, and, oh yeah, bullying. What's not to love?
* TestKiss: After a few drinks, Tracy and Evie practice kissing and it escalates into a makeout for a minute or two.
* TitleByNumber: OneWordTitle, based on the protagonists' age.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Boy howdy...
* TheUnfairSex: Inverted with Tracy and Mason; she gets in trouble for her drug usage and promiscuity, he also uses drugs, [[ValuesDissonance but it's okay since it's only weed and since their mother knows about it.]]
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Tracy, who was initially a kind, innocent seventh-grader who played with Barbie dolls and wrote poetry.
* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Evie and Tracy's relationship with the black boys in the film. But mostly Evie.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Tracy is this with her former friends Noel, and Yumi. And eventually is this with Evie and her group by the end.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Tracy and Evie are 13, but look like they are at least 16.
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Not to be confused with ''Theatre/{{Thirteen}}: The Musical''. Or ''13'', the 2010 English-language remake of 'Film/13Tzameti''.''Film/ThirteenTzameti''. Or the 1974 Creator/ShawBrothers action film, or the manga by Hideaki Sorachi, or the 2016 BBC TV series...
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Not to be confused with ''Theatre/{{Thirteen}}: The Musical''.
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Not to be confused with ''Theatre/{{Thirteen}}: The Musical''.
Musical''. Or ''13'', the 2010 English-language remake of 'Film/13Tzameti''. Or the 1974 Creator/ShawBrothers action film, or the manga by Hideaki Sorachi, or the 2016 BBC TV series...
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* NoEnding: Though it's implied that Tracy got better (she's wearing normal clothes and overall has a more "healthier" appearance).
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* NoEnding: Though it's implied that Tracy got better (she's wearing normal clothes and overall has a more "healthier" appearance).
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* EveryoneHasStandards: It's hinted that Luke is interested in Tracy and Evie. But when they [[spoiler: try and have a ''threesome'' with him, he's understandably freaked out and has to force ''them'' off ''him''.]]
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** To a lesser extent, Noel and Yumi are this to a newly popular Tracy.
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* NoAntagonist: Evie is the closest thing to a proper antagonist the film has. But as the film goes on, the girls become a bad influence on each other, blurring the lines on who the real toxic friend is.
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* RememberThatYouTrustMe: Evie pretty much says this verbatim during Tracy's intervention.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: Tracy is this with her former friends Noel, and Yumi. And eventually is this with Evie and her group by the end.
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* GloomyGray: As Tracy spirals further into rock bottom, the color of the movie fades. About the time she has her intervention, all the color is washed away.
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* GloomyGray: As Tracy spirals further into rock bottom, the color of the movie fades. About the time she has her intervention, all the color is washed away.
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* ManipulativeBitch: Evie.
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* ManipulativeBitch: Evie. And even to a lesser extent, Tracy herself.
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* HoYay: the scene where Tracy and Evie do a TestKiss
