Movie · Netflix · 2004
13 Going on 30
A fairy tale with the right moral: the impressive life was a bad trade.
Jenna wants to skip the awkward years, and the film is kind enough to show her the bill. The woman she becomes has the clothes, the job, and a trail of people she treated as rungs. Waking up inside that woman is a useful fright for a thirteen-year-old, more useful than most films aimed at her.
Watch it with a girl in that age. Ask which of the thirty-year-old's things she would not want if it cost her the friend. The romance is soft. The regret is the point.
The eight
Industry
5/10
A magazine job, and she is good at it. The film does not think that is the victory.
Household
6/10
What she lost was a friend, a parent, a street. Getting them back is the plot.
Piety
3/10
Wishing dust. No soul, except the regret.
Courage
6/10
She tells the truth at a cost to the career the wish built.
Republic
6/10
A neighborhood, a school, a magazine office that has been stealing.
Temperance
6/10
The adult life on offer is parties and betrayal. She refuses it.
Truth
7/10
The lesson is that becoming what you envied can be a confession.
Stewardship
7/10
She chooses the childhood she was in a hurry to spend.
Live historicallyName one friendship you have let go thin because you were busy becoming someone. Repair it this week.
