*** Welcome to piglix ***

13 Going on 30

13 Going on 30
13Goingon30.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Gary Winick
Produced by Susan Arnold
Donna Arkoff Roth
Gina Matthews
Written by Josh Goldsmith
Cathy Yuspa
Starring Jennifer Garner
Mark Ruffalo
Judy Greer
Andy Serkis
Music by Theodore Shapiro
Cinematography Don Burgess
Edited by Susan Littenberg
Production
company
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • April 23, 2004 (2004-04-23)
Running time
97 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $37 million
Box office $96,455,697
13 Going on 30
Film score by Theodore Shapiro
Released April 6, 2004
Length 29:46
Label Hollywood Records
Theodore Shapiro chronology
Starsky & Hutch
(2004)
13 Going on 30
(2004)
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Boston Globe 2.5/4 stars
Chicago Reader positive
Entertainment Weekly A−
LA Weekly favorable
New York Times favorable
Roger Ebert 2/4 stars
San Francisco Chronicle favorable
USA Today 3/4 stars
Variety positive
The Village Voice favorable

13 Going on 30 (known as Suddenly 30 in Australia and some other countries) is a 2004 American romantic comedy fantasy film written by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, and directed by Gary Winick. Starring Jennifer Garner, the film was produced by Revolution Studios for Columbia Pictures and it was released on April 23, 2004. It follows a 13-year-old girl who dreams of being popular. During her birthday party, she engages in the party game Seven Minutes in Heaven. The game turns out to be a humiliating experience for her, and she huddles alone in her basement, wishing over and over she was "thirty and flirty." When she eventually does emerge, she finds herself five days shy of her 30th birthday, uncertain to how she got there.

The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with most praising Garner's performance and its nostalgic environment. It was also praised for its humorous plot and self-empowerment message. The movie was also a commercial success, earning US$22 million in its first week, and grossing over US$96 million, becoming one of the year's biggest DVD rentals and sellers. The movie's soundtrack features songs spanning the 80's to the 2000s, with a range of hits from famous recording artists such as Billy Joel, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Pat Benatar and Whitney Houston. Additionally, the soundtrack charted inside the top-fifty on the Billboard 200 chart. Jennifer Garner's acting earned her nominations from both MTV Movie Awards and Teen Choice Awards, and the movie was also re-released in DVD in 2006 with a special packaging titled "Fun and Flirty Edition", and on Blu-Ray in 2009.


...
Wikipedia

...