2004 · comedy · romance · fantasy
13 Going on 30
Directed by Gary Winick1h 38m2004
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. Thanks to some magic wishing dust, Jenna's prayer has been answered. With a knockout body, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar friends, this can't be a better life. But soon Jenna realizes that adult life isn’t as easy as she hoped for.
Our read: 13 Going on 30 (2004) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · romance · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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