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A 13-year-old A-student (Evan Rachel Wood)
living in Los Angeles relates how her life changed
dramatically after meeting another teen (Nikki
Reed) who taught her about drugs and sex and the
intricacies of body piercing. Also with Holly
Hunter, Brady Corbet and Jeremy Sisto. Directed by
Catherine Hardwicke. A must-see for any adult
raising children over 10. 7.4.9 [1:40]
R Rated Available on DVD
SEX/NUDITY 7 - A man undresses a woman
and she stands fully nude in a shower (we see bare
breasts and pubic region). A girl and a boy kiss,
she climbs on his lap , then another girl and boy
kiss, she climbs on his lap, the girls remove their
tops (we see their bras) and one of the boys unzips
his pants. Two girls kiss a man, he kisses them,
they take off his shirt and caress his chest. A man
and a woman kiss, he climbs on top of her and
caresses her. A man and a woman kiss in bed
together. A girl and a boy kiss (they lick each
other's tongues), and the boy kisses the girl's
neck. A boy and a girl kiss, and two girls kiss a
couple of times (they are practicing kissing). A
girl kisses a woman on the lips (she's a friend's
mother). A girl sneaks out of a house at night with
a boy and it is suggested that they are going to
have sex. Girls and boys dance together. A girl
flashes her breasts at a young man (we see her bare
back). A woman wears a low-cut top that reveals
cleavage and her bare back and shoulders. Girls
wear outfits that reveal cleavage, bare abdomens,
bare backs to the hip, bare legs; also girls wear
low-slung pants and part of their thong underwear
sticks out of the waistband. A man's underwear
hangs low and shows his buttock cleavage. A man is
bare-chested in a few scenes and boys take off
their shirts and run through sprinklers. We see
photographs of young bare-chested men.
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - Two girls are shown
slapping and punching each other in the face: they
have ingested a drug, and ask each other to hit
harder and harder until one ends up with a bloody
lip, and one is knocked out when she hits her head
on the floor (we see this scene again later). A
girl cuts her wrist with a pair of scissors in a
few scenes (we see blood begin to run) and once
with a razor blade. A girl pierces another girl's
belly button; we see needle begin to poke the skin
and we see the girl biting a stuffed animal and
screaming. A girl has her tongue pierced; we see
the clamp holding her tongue and the pointed device
getting closer to her tongue. A woman has blood
wounds on her ears from plastic surgery. A girl and
her brother fight with yelling and shoving. A girl
and her mother yell at each other in several
scenes. A woman slips and falls on a floor, then
begins tearing up the floor covering in anger. A
girl talks about having been abused (sexually) and
having been pushed into a fire (we see a scar on
her back). A girl talks about her mother having
died. Girls shoplift several times and one girl
steals a woman's wallet. A girl is shown selling
drugs in a park.
PROFANITY 9 - 43 F-words, 2 obscene hand
gestures, 13 sexual references, 36 scatological
terms, 8 anatomical terms, 16 mild obscenities, 2
religious profanities, 15 religious exclamations.
[profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Parent/child
relationships, becoming a teenager, peer pressure,
shoplifting, drugs, body piercing, plastic surgery,
alcoholism, cheating, lying. (Editor's
note: and self-mutilatoin)
MESSAGE - Parents must be engaged in
their children's lives and continue to communicate
with them as they become teenagers.
(Note: People are shown smoking cigarettes,
drinking alcohol, and using a variety of
drugs.)
© 2004 Critics Inc.
Source: www.kids-in-mind.com/t/thirteen.htm
or www.kids-in-mind.com/t/thirteen.htm
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