Thirteen - Part 5

Thirteen-year-old Tracy Louise Freeland (Evan Rachel Wood) is a straight-A student who writes poetry. At her Los Angeles middle school, she is teased about her "cabbage patch" clothes by more popular girls. Her divorced mother Melanie (Holly Hunter) is a recovering substance abuser and high school dropout who struggles as a hairdresser to earn enough to support Tracy and her older brother Mason (Brady Corbet), who is an avid surfer. She buys Tracy a few new clothing items from a discount vendor in a van. Thus clothed and much to her delight, Tracy is invited by Evie Zamora (Nikki Reed), the most popular girl, to go shopping in Hollywood. Although Evie gives her a disconnected telephone number, likely as a mean middle school joke or ploy, Tracy takes the bus to Hollywood anyway. She finds Evie and a friend, only to learn that to them, shopping means shoplifting. Undaunted, Tracy steals a woman's pocketbook and the teens go on a shopping spree, whereafter Tracy and Evie become fast friends. Evie moves into the Freeland house and the two girls go into a downward spiral of hard drugs, sex, lies, piercings and petty crime.

Meanwhile Tracy is upset about and torn between her divorced parents, both of whom are struggling to earn enough money to live. Tracy shuns her old, faithful friends and at home, taunts Melanie's boyfriend, a former cocaine addict (Jeremy Sisto). Melanie sees hints of what is happening with the two girls but is unable to stop them, further thwarted by Evie's manipulative but likely truthful claims of childhood abuse. As Tracy steadily shuts Melanie out of her life, Tracy and Evie become very close, even talking to each other in their own language, commonly known as 'gibberish'. However, after the early thrills, Tracy's new found popularity doesn't make her happier. In one scene, underage Evie and Tracy try to seduce Luke (Kip Pardue), a lifeguard in his early twenties who is a friend of Mason's. Drawn at first into their kisses, Luke throws them out of his house and soon after, puts the house up for rent and moves away.

All alone, Tracy has taken to cutting herself as a way to cope with her stress. One night in Hollywood, Mason and a friend make comments about a cute girl who has her back to them. When she turns around and answers with a scathing remark, Mason is shocked to see this is his sister, with a belly ring. Back home, the two girls take turns inhaling from a can of gas duster and become so numb they laughingly hit each other for kicks, drawing blood. At last, Melanie is able to take Evie back to live with her guardian Brooke (Deborah Kara Unger), an aging model and aspiring actor who also works as a bartender. Tracy seems to agree with this step, after which Evie snubs and betrays her at school.

Failing seventh grade, former honor-roll student Tracy comes home to find Evie, Brooke, and Melanie waiting for her. When the women confront Tracy about her drug use and stealing, Tracy angrily blames Evie. Brooke says Tracy was the bad influence and that they are moving to Ojai, to get away from her. Melanie stands up for her daughter, saying Tracy was "playing with Barbies" when she met Evie. Brooke then grabs Tracy and pulls her sleeve up to show Melanie the many cuts and long scars on her daughter's left arm. Melanie, taken aback and shaken by this sight, tells Brooke and Evie to leave. Both mother and daughter weep on the kitchen floor as Melanie kisses her daughter's heavily cut arm. Although Tracy pleadingly tells her mother to let go of her, Melanie holds on tight and they wind up in Tracy's room where they carry on hugging and fall asleep. The movie ends the next morning as Tracy wakes up with a start and later spins alone on a merry-go-round in the park, screaming.

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[latplayer8]

what is the name of the song when the girls are with boys?

[DemonKatrina]

It's called Baby by Supervision. I love that song! It's really hard to find though. I just got it! I can send it to you if you want me to!?

[MegaLolaGirL]

please help!! what's the name of the song where tracy and evie having sex with the boys?

[DemonKatrina]

It's called Baby by Supervision! I luv it! I can send it to you if you want me to. I just got it. It's really hard to find!

[MyRealWorld11]

Ah, teenagers in todays society are acting WAAYY... more grown-up. And by grown-up I mean more slutty. Im not just basing my facts on this movie im basing my facts on what I see. Granted I did things simliar to that when I was thirteen but nothing about drugs and sex. I did smoke and drink a little and i may have cut my-self a few times. but there are girls out there today who have already lost their virginity by age 12. It's really sad :'(

[MissTeaCup68]

nope, just showing each other how to kiss I guess.

[korniliaP]

@verb4  forgot the piercing :P i love it 2

[tusia750]

@MyRealWorld11 yeah i agree , but hey im 12 and im a virgin , not gunna loose it for a long time .

Anyway , yupp agree but this film is from 2003 i think so ...

[royceroller852700000]

@jazzykinz3515 Same here B, word for word ya' digg....

[iluvhugs13]

Tbh I'm surprised how so many of the comments are about people who have done all this stuff. Maybe it's just where I'm from but I'm 13 and very few people I know do this even the so-called "cool" ones.

[shrnjnes]

haha. you know this movies old when white chicks act like its such a big deal hanging out with african americans

[jazzykinz3515]

I'm 15 and I started drinking when I was only 12, smoking weed/ciggs when I was 13 and I have done a lot of stuff with guys but I'm still a virgin. I would NEVER in my life do hard drugs though, that just screws you over..

[EmperorRay1]

This is sad when you let your daughters dress like sluts, hang out with the wrong crowd, doing drugs, stealing, and having sex with random niggers and wiggers

[1HippieRebel]

I hate seeing how they act like this it scares me. I hope this doent happen as often as I think it does, they're just kids, really.