Film - THIRTEEN

[Girls' Coalition of Greater Boston]

THIRTEEN

The next screening of THIRTEEN will take place on Tuesday, August 26th at 
7:00pm at the Loews Harvard Square theatre. There will be a panel 
discussion directly following the screening with Dr. Cynthia Kaplan, 
Director of Child and Adolescent Programs at Mclean Hospital; a local high 
school senior and teen correspondent; as well as the Recruitment 
Coordinator from the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston. Please fill 
your organization in the blank space below and forward to as many of your 
contacts/ list-serves as possible. (You must let Alyssa Burrage  know what 
groups your targeting, so that she may update her reports.)  Please 
remember this film is rated R so we are still mainly going after parents, 
professionals etc.

If you have any other questions please contact Alyssa Burrage,Account 
Executive,Allied Advertising, T: (617) 425-8943, 
aburrage at alliedadvpub.com.=20

Thanks,=20

bc

<p>Fox Searchlight Pictures &  _____________   cordially invite you to an 
advance screening and discussion of 
thirteen

>From a first-time director and two teenage actresses comes a raw and 
revealing insight into urban adolescence in 2003, a provocative portrait 
of what teens today are thinking, doing, feeling and going through. Winner 
of the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Catherine 
Hardwicke's THIRTEEN is a unique project co-written with then-13-year-old 
Nikki Reed who lived many of the events seen on screen.  Together, they 
forged a fast-and-furious, unblinking picture of the cliques and clashes, 
hidden dangers and secret rituals, dashed hopes and unrelenting dreams of 
two American girls looking to make their way in a new world for which few 
maps exist. =20

The screening will be directly followed by a panel discussion with:

-       Dr. Cynthia Kaplan, Director of Child and Adolescent Services at 
McLean Hospital

-       Recruitment Coordinator, Big Sister Association of Greater Boston

-       A local high school senior and teen correspondent of a local paper

Tuesday, August 26th at 7:00pm

Loews Harvard Square Theatre

Please RSVP to (617) 247-7654 or thirteenscreening at hotmail.com

For more information go to www.foxsearchlightpictures.com/thirteen

To view the New York Times Sunday review, go to: =
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2003/08/20/movies/20THIR.html

Rating:  R

Opens Boston: August 29, 2003

Running Time: 95 minutes

Directed by:  Catherine Hardwicke  =20

Written by: Catherine Hardwicke & Nikki Reed

ProducersJeffrey Levy-Hinte, Michael London
Cast:   Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed, Jeremy Sisto

Synopsis:

>From a first-time director and two teenage actresses comes a raw and 
revealing insight into urban adolescence in 2003, a provocative portrait 
of what teens today are thinking, doing, feeling and going through. Winner 
of the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Catherine 
Hardwicke's THIRTEEN is a unique project co-written with = 
then-13-year-old Nikki Reed who lived many of the events seen on screen. 
Together, they forged a fast-and-furious, unblinking picture of the 
cliques and clashes, hidden dangers and secret rituals, dashed hopes and 
unrelenting dreams of two American girls looking to make their way in a 
new world for which few maps exist. =20

What does it mean to be thirteen right now?  It has always been the age 
when establishing identity, individuality and a sense of one's importance 
in the world become the imperative. But in today's America, the pressures 
on 13-year-old girls - media-fueled expectations to be sexy, gorgeous, 
cool and in control - have never been greater. Low-rider jeans, body 
piercing and petty crimes have become the outward symbols of a generation 
that is desperately trying to find its own spirit.

Hardwicke explores this territory with honesty, clarity and passion in 
THIRTEEN, using a hyper-kinetic camera to capture both the unhinged joy 
and high angst of hitting modern adolescence full force.  The story 
follows the transformation of Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood), who begins as a 
promising, pig-tailed student still playing with teddy bears and Barbie=AE 
dolls.  But when Tracy enters the hyper-sexualized peer-pressure cooker of 
junior high, she witnesses the power and hipness of Evie Zamora (Nikki 
Reed, co-writer of the script), who has become = widely known as "the 
hottest chick in school."   Ultra-popular, model-gorgeous and bewitchingly 
snobby, Evie represents  everything Tracy suddenly wants, and needs, to 
be.  =20

At first Tracy has no hope of being accepted into Evie's elite clique. 
She's got the wrong attitude, the wrong friends, definitely the wrong 
look.  But Tracy learns to remake herself, step by step, into the ultimate 
ideal of a 2003 teen.  She discovers how to do the makeup, the clothes, 
the hair, the act.=20

She cracks the code of popularity, gains Evie as a mercurial best friend, 
and even starts winning attention from boys.  And yet, the further Tracy 
dives into premature adulthood, the higher the stakes get.  She loses the 
closeness she once had with her hard-working mother (played by 
Oscar=AE-winner Holly Hunter), starts failing classes, and despite her 
seething hatred of her mother's ex-addict boyfriend (Jeremy Sisto), 
becomes a drug abuser herself.  Despite it all, Tracy is still THIRTEEN, 
caught in a whirlwind of emotion in which everything she does, = 
everything she says, all that she wants, seems to matter in a huge way. 
And...she still has her whole life in front of her. =20

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