what do you get when you throw a 13 year old girl and a fifty something old lady in a room together and tell them to churn out a script . apparently and it thirteen and which be in my opinion one of the big cinematic abomination of all time . this garbage heap of silver screen melodrama tell the story of a 13 year old girl name tracy who and over the course of what seem like a week and be turn into a drug use and self mutilate hussy when she befriend a popular girl name evie ( be it just me or be there too much business over who popular and who not in film about adolescence . ) . throughout the course of all this and she begin turn on her mother and her family and who seem kind of unshaken by most of it until the last 15 minute of the film . perhaps my hatred for this film come mainly from the way the girl at my school talk about and how it be just like real life . keep in mind that these girl be rich white suburbanite and not poverty stricken kid in the ghetto like the one in the movie . but put that aside and i would say that the film big problem be it script and in that it be entirely unrealistic and melodramatic . i watch this movie with people who say they love it and and at time even they laugh at some of the dialog . apparently for the girl at my school and guy i totally just steal all this . i do not think i have ever see this much money in my life . let go shop . hell yeah . be realistic dialog . the next major problem be the act . evan rachel wood tracy be entirely irritating and ridiculous and and while watch this film i find myself not feel sympathetic but annoyed . i grit my teeth every time she speak . most of the praise for this film move towards holly hunter performance a tracy clueless mother . i know a lot of mom in real life who be like her in that they try to be hip and let their daughter do whatever they want and but i can not see play that role a much of a challenge . tell me and when be the last time someone win an oscar for act stupid and clueless . lastly and we move on to catherine hardwicke pretentious style . the look of this film be mainly grainy steady cam shot that inter cut with one another . grant and there be some sequence that look and sound pretty alright and but for regular scene it just annoy . this should be study by filmmaker who want to make up for their abysmal storyline and act with fake art house cinematography that will land them a spot at that super indie underground film festival and sundance . you know and the one with it own cable channel . i would say avoid this one at all cost and and if you hear someone say something nice about it and do not take their phone call .