Today’s movie is a comedy with a scene that happens on May 26. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
13 GOING ON 30
Jenna Rink is an “uncool” girl having her 13th birthday on May 26, 1987. [1:46 to 12:49] who
wants to look like the models in Poise magazine. She gets the cool ‘six chick’ group to come to her party by agreeing to do a school assignment for them. Her nerdy, overweight friend Matt comes to the party and gives her a doll ‘dream house’ that he built for her and sprinkles ‘wishing dust’ on it. The six chicks
show up at the party with some boys, including the hunk Chris Grandy, who Jenna has a crush on. They play ‘seven minutes in heaven’, but everyone except Matt leaves while Jenna is in the
closet. She is embarrassed by this and sits in the closet and knocks some of the ‘wishing dust’ off the doll house onto her as she wishes to be “thirty,
flirty and thriving’. The next thing she knows, she wakes up in a New York apartment and she is thirty. Her best friend Lucy (who’s later revealed to be Tom-Tom, leader of the chick six) drives her to their jobs as editors at Poise magazine. Jenna learns Poise has been scooped by their rival Sparkle for the last seven
months. She finds Matt and discovers they’ve been estranged since high school. Poise’s promotional party is crashing until Jenna revives it with 80’s tunes that get everyone dancing. Jenna has to learn how to do her job and finds out that Matt is
engaged, while she has a boyfriend she does not like. Jenna learns she had been having an affair with a married man and that Lucy is putting together her own idea
for a redesign of the magazine. Jenna realizes that she hates her life. She goes back home and reconnects with her parents. She hires Matt to help her with her redesign project. The magazine’s senior editor, Richard likes her redesign idea. Then everything crashes. Poise is to be shut down because her photos from
the redesign plan ended up in Sparkle. Lucy learned that Jenna was the one who had been feeding stuff to Sparkle. Lucy used this knowledge to con Matt into signing the rights to the redesign photos over to her and she takes them to Sparkle as its new editor. Jenna meets Chris Grandy, who’s now a cabbie and goes to Matt’s house on his wedding day. He admits he loves her, but can’t change the past. He gives her the dream doll
house. Some of the ‘wishing dust’ falls on her as she wishes to be 13 again. Jenna is back in the closet.
She charges out and kisses Matt and tosses the six chicks out of her house We jump ahead to Jenna and Matt’s wedding.
This is a funny female version of Big. Jennifer Garner does a fantastic job of portraying a 13 year old in a grown up world. Her out of touch behavior help make this a very funny
movie.
Date given in film at 5:10 on video
Producers - Susan Arnold, Donna Arkoff Roth and Gina Matthews
Screenplay - Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa and Niels Mueller
Director - Gary Winick
Released – April 23, 2004
Runtime – 1 hour 37 minutes
Starring -
Jennifer Garner as Jenna Rink
Mark Ruffalo as Matt Flamhaff
Judy Greer as Lucy Wyman
Andy Serkis as Richard Kneeland
Christa B. Allen as Young Jenna
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.
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