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      <title>Film:13 Going on 30</title>
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<strong>Title:</strong> 13 Going on 30<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 2004<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> Gary Winick<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> Thirteen-year-old Jenna (Shana Dowdeswell) has had enough with the trials of adolescence. In addition to being saddled with a devoted-but-nerdy best friend, Matt (Sean Marquette), she falls victim to one of the dangers of playing Seven Minutes in Heaven with the coolest kids in school: being stranded without a willing make-out partner. Humiliated, Jenna buries herself in the aformentioned make-out closet, wishing she could skip the whole adolescence bit and move straight into adulthood, and miraculously wakes just weeks away from her 30th birthday.  Of course, a lot has changed since going to bed the night before, not the least of which being an impressive set of womanly curves. The new, older Jenna (<a href="/players/P___230436/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jennifer Garner</a>) is a successful magazine editor with friends in high places and a lion's share of potential suitors -- including a hockey-playing boyfriend and a swarthy married man. The problem is that her mind hasn't matured with her body; Jenna not only finds living on her own more terrifying than cool, but is quick to dismiss any male over the age of 14 as "gross." Half excited, half mortified, Jenna seeks out Matt (<a href="/players/P___197651/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Mark Ruffalo</a>), whom she learns she had spurned as a teenager in an effort to join the popular crowd. Gary Winick directed, from a script by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa; Gina Matthews produced. Choreographer <a href="/players/P___106227/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Michael Peters</a> - who died in 1994 - received posthumous credit, as his choreography from the <a href="/players/P____95684/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Michael Jackson</a> <a href=/films/75729/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Thriller</a> video is used in one scene. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide<br/>
<strong>Times Tagged:</strong> 70<br/>
<strong>Number of Lists:</strong> 42<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 3<br/>
<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 2<br/>
</td></tr></table>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:22:00 GMT</pubDate><spout:Title>13 Going on 30</spout:Title><spout:Year>2004</spout:Year><spout:Director>Gary Winick</spout:Director><spout:Plot>Thirteen-year-old Jenna (Shana Dowdeswell) has had enough with the trials of adolescence. In addition to being saddled with a devoted-but-nerdy best friend, Matt (Sean Marquette), she falls victim to one of the dangers of playing Seven Minutes in Heaven with the coolest kids in school: being stranded without a willing make-out partner. Humiliated, Jenna buries herself in the aformentioned make-out closet, wishing she could skip the whole adolescence bit and move straight into adulthood, and miraculously wakes just weeks away from her 30th birthday.  Of course, a lot has changed since going to bed the night before, not the least of which being an impressive set of womanly curves. The new, older Jenna (&lt;a href="/players/P___230436/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Jennifer Garner&lt;/a&gt;) is a successful magazine editor with friends in high places and a lion's share of potential suitors -- including a hockey-playing boyfriend and a swarthy married man. The problem is that her mind hasn't matured with her body; Jenna not only finds living on her own more terrifying than cool, but is quick to dismiss any male over the age of 14 as "gross." Half excited, half mortified, Jenna seeks out Matt (&lt;a href="/players/P___197651/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Mark Ruffalo&lt;/a&gt;), whom she learns she had spurned as a teenager in an effort to join the popular crowd. Gary Winick directed, from a script by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa; Gina Matthews produced. Choreographer &lt;a href="/players/P___106227/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Michael Peters&lt;/a&gt; - who died in 1994 - received posthumous credit, as his choreography from the &lt;a href="/players/P____95684/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Michael Jackson&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=/films/75729/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Thriller&lt;/a&gt; video is used in one scene. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide</spout:Plot><spout:TimesTagged>70</spout:TimesTagged><spout:taglevel>Tag Target (&gt;10)</spout:taglevel><spout:Numberoflists>42</spout:Numberoflists><spout:NumberOfBlogPosts>3</spout:NumberOfBlogPosts><spout:SpoutRating>2</spout:SpoutRating><spout:FilmCoverURL>http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t88901vyude.jpg</spout:FilmCoverURL><spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL>http://www.spout.com/films/13_Going_on_30/226273/default.aspx</spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL><spout:type>Film</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: A Bakers Dozen Aging to Three Decades</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/immabohemian/archive/2007/10/22/21043.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t88901vyude.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/101508/default.aspx'>immaBOHEMIAN</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/immabohemian/default.aspx'>immaBOHEMIAN Blog</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 10/22/2007 10:05:11 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> This film has it&#39;s little quirks that make me not hate the film. Secretly I just enjoy Mark Ruffalo and the whole concept of getting a second chance, changing things for the better, getting a glimpse into the future at what could be and making it what you want it to be. Yeah, the film&#39;s a bit cheesy and it&#39;s your typical romantic comedy but I really liked the whole 80&#39;s element. I didn&#39;t really like Jennifer Garner in the film. Her doe-eyed, shocked at everything, act was fitting I suppose but I felt that it got a little tired. Romantic comedies are cruel and give women all over the world false hope. But we can&#39;t resist the Whitney Houston montague with the make up and fake eyelashes. And who wants to miss out on a thriller imitation done by Jenna and Matty just like the good ol&#39; days?Some women can resist romantic comedies...I struggle...I&#39;ll admit it. I get sucked in. I don&#39;t necessarily enjoy them but I do always want to see them.  <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:05:11 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>immaBOHEMIAN</spout:postby><spout:postto>immaBOHEMIAN Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>10/22/2007 10:05:11 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>This film has it&amp;#39;s little quirks that make me not hate the film. Secretly I just enjoy Mark Ruffalo and the whole concept of getting a second chance, changing things for the better, getting a glimpse into the future at what could be and making it what you want it to be. Yeah, the film&amp;#39;s a bit cheesy and it&amp;#39;s your typical romantic comedy but I really liked the whole 80&amp;#39;s element. I didn&amp;#39;t really like Jennifer Garner in the film. Her doe-eyed, shocked at everything, act was fitting I suppose but I felt that it got a little tired. Romantic comedies are cruel and give women all over the world false hope. But we can&amp;#39;t resist the Whitney Houston montague with the make up and fake eyelashes. And who wants to miss out on a thriller imitation done by Jenna and Matty just like the good ol&amp;#39; days?Some women can resist romantic comedies...I struggle...I&amp;#39;ll admit it. I get sucked in. I don&amp;#39;t necessarily enjoy them but I do always want to see them.  </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: 13 Going on 30 - Mean Girls</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/moviebabe/archive/2007/7/4/13073.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t88901vyude.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/7741/default.aspx'>MovieBabe</a><br/>
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 7/4/2007 11:22:00 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong>  By Tricia Olszewski  The line-dance scene is rarely a good idea. The one in 13 Going on 30, Jennifer Garner&rsquo;s vagina version of Big, is no exception: At a swank present-day publicity bash for a Manhattan women&rsquo;s magazine, our not-a-girl-not-yet-a-woman editor heroine, Jenna, tries to get the party started by requesting that the DJ replace his antiseptic house beats with &ldquo;Thriller.&rdquo; In tottering heels, a kicky dress, and makeup reminiscent of MJ&rsquo;s finest era, Jenna rushes the dance floor and earnestly begins performing the clawing, head-dipping, completely awkward monster mash from her fave video. Slowly, others join her, until all the hip revelers are looking just as stupid/happy as can be.   Taken out of context&mdash;the clip is being used to promote the film&mdash;the scene is nothing less than squirm-inducing. Within the movie, it&rsquo;s not much better, yet because of the irresistible ebullience of Garner&rsquo;s Jenna, it&rsquo;s forgivable. So, in fact, is the film&rsquo;s It&rsquo;s a Wonderful Life&ndash;esque universe-hopping, as well as the many predictable turns it takes. Ditto for the faintly pedophiliac plot and self-empowering morals about not being a jerk and recognizing your true friends.   Indeed, the success of 13 Going on 30 is due almost entirely to the giddy performances of Garner and co-star Mark Ruffalo, who plays the grown-up version of Matt, Jenna&rsquo;s girlhood neighbor. The two share a not-so-rosy past: Back in 1987, on her 13th birthday, the eager-to-grow-up Jenna (Christa B. Allen) submits to blackmail in order to get the cool girls, known here as the Six Chicks, to come to her party. When they play a trick on her that lands Jenna in a closet, blindfolded and awaiting her seven minutes of heaven with a crush as the Chicks make for the exits, she blames her nerdy best bud and new closetmate, Matt (Sean Marquette), for scaring them away. Matt, who has just spent three weeks building Jenna her own personal version of a Barbie Dream House complete with &ldquo;wishing dust,&rdquo; is naturally crestfallen. Jenna tells him to get lost and goes back to yearning to be &ldquo;30, flirty, and thriving,&rdquo; just like the pretty women featured in Poise, her favorite magazine.  Jenna, of course, wakes up the next day blessed with a fab apartment, great bone structure, and the kind of rack that doesn&rsquo;t hold mix tapes. At this point, of course, 13 Going on 30 stops making much sense. But it also starts being a lot of fun, as Jenna tries to improvise her way through her sudden life as a chic Poise editor.   Garner&rsquo;s playful, believable turn as the ever-adolescent Jenna is miles away from the action-girl persona that made her a star in Alias. Jenna is a just-right mix of silliness, timidity, and &ldquo;I never!&rdquo; bluntness that&rsquo;s especially refreshing&mdash;and surprisingly attractive&mdash;coming from a woman who looks as if she&rsquo;d sooner stick her Prada heel in your eye than giggle. But giggling is something Garner does plenty of here, often accompanied by general freaking out, a combination most entertainingly displayed in a love scene in which Jenna scrunches up both face and body as her boyfriend kisses her ear and then hides behind a pillow as he performs an awful striptease&mdash;right down to the tightie-whities&mdash;before finally entreating him to &ldquo;Put it away!&rdquo;  Ruffalo&rsquo;s genial, understated Matt is equally&mdash;and sorry, there&rsquo;s no other word for it&mdash;adorable. Matt&rsquo;s skepticism when he one day opens his door to find the grown-up and confused Jenna never quite dissipates, but after he informs her that they&rsquo;ve barely spoken since that fateful day in the closet, he begins a slow, convincing transformation. Ruffalo&rsquo;s expressions as Matt watches Jenna act like a nut&mdash;smiles at first tentative and cynical, then hopelessly smitten&mdash;are aching displays of his recognition of the girl he loved within the woman he loathes.  Musically, the movie is a slightly less obvious version of I Love the 80s!, from the &ldquo;Head Over Heels&rdquo; intro to the &ldquo;Crazy for You&rdquo;&ndash;accompanied closet scene to Jenna&rsquo;s undying devotion to Rick Springfield and Pat Benatar. (And when was the last time you heard Billy Joel&rsquo;s &ldquo;Vienna&rdquo; played in its entirety in anything?) Good ideas, all, but 13 Going on 30 should really be commended for making appropriate use of yet another bad one: Liz Phair&rsquo;s unsettling &ldquo;Why Can&rsquo;t I,&rdquo; a dreamy bit of puppy-love wistfulness that starts to seem icky after you discover it&rsquo;s being sung by a 37-year-old mom. Next to that, a little line-dancing looks positively brilliant.    The cool kids in Mean Girls aren&rsquo;t the Chicks but the Plastics, and the lead character doesn&rsquo;t have to skip through time to learn how to deal with them. But otherwise, Saturday Night Live head-writer Tina Fey&rsquo;s screenwriting debut offers life lessons very much like 13 Going on 30&rsquo;s, albeit with an evil twist.  Fey based her portrait of socio-academic hell on the ideas of Rosalind Wiseman&rsquo;s pop-psychology study Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence. The book views teenage girls as a species as mysterious as the apes, suggesting that their society boasts a natural order and ruthlessness that&rsquo;s more animalistic than human. Helpfully, it also provides advice on overcoming stereotypes and the depression, eating disorders, and backbiting hostilities that accompany them.  The movie&rsquo;s sorta-anthropological basis, however, doesn&rsquo;t much help to distinguish it from your usual tired teen comedy. The story of Cady (Freaky Friday&rsquo;s Lindsay Lohan) is fairly typical: The 15-year-old is a new student at a Chicago high school and is trying to figure out which group to hang with. And Cady is really, really new, having previously been home-schooled by her parents in Africa.   Cady is first taken in by the fringe, consisting of the punky maybe-lesbian Janis Ian (Lizzy Caplan) and tubby gay boy Damian (Daniel Franzese). They warn her of the Plastics, and when the pretty newcomer is lured by the siren song of the ringleader, Regina (Rachel McAdams), Janis and Damian encourage her to infiltrate and sabotage.   Mean Girls is saved from total ho-humness by Fey&rsquo;s script, which contains some on-target parodies of the ridiculous stuff of high school: &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t have sex! Because you will get pregnant&mdash;and die! Here&rsquo;s some condoms.&rdquo; Director Mark S. Waters, who also worked with Lohan in Freaky Friday, is a little less original this time around, though, including scenes such as the slo-mo cool-girl parade down the hall and lighting the Plastics glamorously while keeping Cady &amp; Co. unenhanced and &ldquo;real.&rdquo;  Until about the film&rsquo;s halfway mark, that is, at which point Cady stops being a natural teen and starts walking around with her boobs pushed up to her neck. The worst sin committed by Mean Girls is not its pratfalls or its fart jokes&mdash;it&rsquo;s the movie&rsquo;s blatant hypocrisy. Even when Cady does get the message that it&rsquo;s better to be faithful to your real friends than to go around hatin&rsquo; in the name of popularity, her shirt is about two sizes too small and her long hair is flowing. Cleavage is rampant, and a talent-show performance of &ldquo;Jingle Bell Rock&rdquo; is nearly worthy of the adult section. There&rsquo;s even a shot of Regina&rsquo;s kid sister practicing her, uh, milkshake in front of an MTV-blaring television.  So...whether you&rsquo;re a mean girl or a good girl, it doesn&rsquo;t hurt to be sexed-up and camera-ready? Somehow, I doubt that&rsquo;s what Wiseman had in mind.  <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:22:00 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>MovieBabe</spout:postby><spout:postto>MovieBabe Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>7/4/2007 11:22:00 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body> By Tricia Olszewski  The line-dance scene is rarely a good idea. The one in 13 Going on 30, Jennifer Garner&amp;rsquo;s vagina version of Big, is no exception: At a swank present-day publicity bash for a Manhattan women&amp;rsquo;s magazine, our not-a-girl-not-yet-a-woman editor heroine, Jenna, tries to get the party started by requesting that the DJ replace his antiseptic house beats with &amp;ldquo;Thriller.&amp;rdquo; In tottering heels, a kicky dress, and makeup reminiscent of MJ&amp;rsquo;s finest era, Jenna rushes the dance floor and earnestly begins performing the clawing, head-dipping, completely awkward monster mash from her fave video. Slowly, others join her, until all the hip revelers are looking just as stupid/happy as can be.   Taken out of context&amp;mdash;the clip is being used to promote the film&amp;mdash;the scene is nothing less than squirm-inducing. Within the movie, it&amp;rsquo;s not much better, yet because of the irresistible ebullience of Garner&amp;rsquo;s Jenna, it&amp;rsquo;s forgivable. So, in fact, is the film&amp;rsquo;s It&amp;rsquo;s a Wonderful Life&amp;ndash;esque universe-hopping, as well as the many predictable turns it takes. Ditto for the faintly pedophiliac plot and self-empowering morals about not being a jerk and recognizing your true friends.   Indeed, the success of 13 Going on 30 is due almost entirely to the giddy performances of Garner and co-star Mark Ruffalo, who plays the grown-up version of Matt, Jenna&amp;rsquo;s girlhood neighbor. The two share a not-so-rosy past: Back in 1987, on her 13th birthday, the eager-to-grow-up Jenna (Christa B. Allen) submits to blackmail in order to get the cool girls, known here as the Six Chicks, to come to her party. When they play a trick on her that lands Jenna in a closet, blindfolded and awaiting her seven minutes of heaven with a crush as the Chicks make for the exits, she blames her nerdy best bud and new closetmate, Matt (Sean Marquette), for scaring them away. Matt, who has just spent three weeks building Jenna her own personal version of a Barbie Dream House complete with &amp;ldquo;wishing dust,&amp;rdquo; is naturally crestfallen. Jenna tells him to get lost and goes back to yearning to be &amp;ldquo;30, flirty, and thriving,&amp;rdquo; just like the pretty women featured in Poise, her favorite magazine.  Jenna, of course, wakes up the next day blessed with a fab apartment, great bone structure, and the kind of rack that doesn&amp;rsquo;t hold mix tapes. At this point, of course, 13 Going on 30 stops making much sense. But it also starts being a lot of fun, as Jenna tries to improvise her way through her sudden life as a chic Poise editor.   Garner&amp;rsquo;s playful, believable turn as the ever-adolescent Jenna is miles away from the action-girl persona that made her a star in Alias. Jenna is a just-right mix of silliness, timidity, and &amp;ldquo;I never!&amp;rdquo; bluntness that&amp;rsquo;s especially refreshing&amp;mdash;and surprisingly attractive&amp;mdash;coming from a woman who looks as if she&amp;rsquo;d sooner stick her Prada heel in your eye than giggle. But giggling is something Garner does plenty of here, often accompanied by general freaking out, a combination most entertainingly displayed in a love scene in which Jenna scrunches up both face and body as her boyfriend kisses her ear and then hides behind a pillow as he performs an awful striptease&amp;mdash;right down to the tightie-whities&amp;mdash;before finally entreating him to &amp;ldquo;Put it away!&amp;rdquo;  Ruffalo&amp;rsquo;s genial, understated Matt is equally&amp;mdash;and sorry, there&amp;rsquo;s no other word for it&amp;mdash;adorable. Matt&amp;rsquo;s skepticism when he one day opens his door to find the grown-up and confused Jenna never quite dissipates, but after he informs her that they&amp;rsquo;ve barely spoken since that fateful day in the closet, he begins a slow, convincing transformation. Ruffalo&amp;rsquo;s expressions as Matt watches Jenna act like a nut&amp;mdash;smiles at first tentative and cynical, then hopelessly smitten&amp;mdash;are aching displays of his recognition of the girl he loved within the woman he loathes.  Musically, the movie is a slightly less obvious version of I Love the 80s!, from the &amp;ldquo;Head Over Heels&amp;rdquo; intro to the &amp;ldquo;Crazy for You&amp;rdquo;&amp;ndash;accompanied closet scene to Jenna&amp;rsquo;s undying devotion to Rick Springfield and Pat Benatar. (And when was the last time you heard Billy Joel&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;Vienna&amp;rdquo; played in its entirety in anything?) Good ideas, all, but 13 Going on 30 should really be commended for making appropriate use of yet another bad one: Liz Phair&amp;rsquo;s unsettling &amp;ldquo;Why Can&amp;rsquo;t I,&amp;rdquo; a dreamy bit of puppy-love wistfulness that starts to seem icky after you discover it&amp;rsquo;s being sung by a 37-year-old mom. Next to that, a little line-dancing looks positively brilliant.    The cool kids in Mean Girls aren&amp;rsquo;t the Chicks but the Plastics, and the lead character doesn&amp;rsquo;t have to skip through time to learn how to deal with them. But otherwise, Saturday Night Live head-writer Tina Fey&amp;rsquo;s screenwriting debut offers life lessons very much like 13 Going on 30&amp;rsquo;s, albeit with an evil twist.  Fey based her portrait of socio-academic hell on the ideas of Rosalind Wiseman&amp;rsquo;s pop-psychology study Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence. The book views teenage girls as a species as mysterious as the apes, suggesting that their society boasts a natural order and ruthlessness that&amp;rsquo;s more animalistic than human. Helpfully, it also provides advice on overcoming stereotypes and the depression, eating disorders, and backbiting hostilities that accompany them.  The movie&amp;rsquo;s sorta-anthropological basis, however, doesn&amp;rsquo;t much help to distinguish it from your usual tired teen comedy. The story of Cady (Freaky Friday&amp;rsquo;s Lindsay Lohan) is fairly typical: The 15-year-old is a new student at a Chicago high school and is trying to figure out which group to hang with. And Cady is really, really new, having previously been home-schooled by her parents in Africa.   Cady is first taken in by the fringe, consisting of the punky maybe-lesbian Janis Ian (Lizzy Caplan) and tubby gay boy Damian (Daniel Franzese). They warn her of the Plastics, and when the pretty newcomer is lured by the siren song of the ringleader, Regina (Rachel McAdams), Janis and Damian encourage her to infiltrate and sabotage.   Mean Girls is saved from total ho-humness by Fey&amp;rsquo;s script, which contains some on-target parodies of the ridiculous stuff of high school: &amp;ldquo;Don&amp;rsquo;t have sex! Because you will get pregnant&amp;mdash;and die! Here&amp;rsquo;s some condoms.&amp;rdquo; Director Mark S. Waters, who also worked with Lohan in Freaky Friday, is a little less original this time around, though, including scenes such as the slo-mo cool-girl parade down the hall and lighting the Plastics glamorously while keeping Cady &amp;amp; Co. unenhanced and &amp;ldquo;real.&amp;rdquo;  Until about the film&amp;rsquo;s halfway mark, that is, at which point Cady stops being a natural teen and starts walking around with her boobs pushed up to her neck. The worst sin committed by Mean Girls is not its pratfalls or its fart jokes&amp;mdash;it&amp;rsquo;s the movie&amp;rsquo;s blatant hypocrisy. Even when Cady does get the message that it&amp;rsquo;s better to be faithful to your real friends than to go around hatin&amp;rsquo; in the name of popularity, her shirt is about two sizes too small and her long hair is flowing. Cleavage is rampant, and a talent-show performance of &amp;ldquo;Jingle Bell Rock&amp;rdquo; is nearly worthy of the adult section. There&amp;rsquo;s even a shot of Regina&amp;rsquo;s kid sister practicing her, uh, milkshake in front of an MTV-blaring television.  So...whether you&amp;rsquo;re a mean girl or a good girl, it doesn&amp;rsquo;t hurt to be sexed-up and camera-ready? Somehow, I doubt that&amp;rsquo;s what Wiseman had in mind.  </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: 13 Going on 30</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/jimbell/archive/2007/4/18/7222.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t88901vyude.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/7717/default.aspx'>JimBell</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/jimbell/default.aspx'>JimBell Blog</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 4/18/2007 3:08:00 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 13 Going On 30&mdash;I watched this because my niece said it was one of her favourite movies of the year. I had heard it described more than once as the female version of Tom Hank&rsquo;s Big, which is a wonderful movie about a young boy who suddenly pops into a grown-up body, has hilarious adventures, and uses his youth to design some great toys for a toy company. If you watch 13 Going On 30 in this erroneous context, it is a failure.   If you watch the movie in its own right, it is fairly good and has something valuable to say. Thirteen-year old Jenna Rink (Christa B. Allen) wants desperately to be part of the in-crowd of snotty girls at her school, and she rejects the friendship of the friendly, chubby guy next door as part of her ambitious plan. When she flashes forward to herself at 30 (Jennifer Garner), she slowly realizes that she is a nasty, backstabbing, ambitious career bitch. To figure things out, she has her secretary track down the guy next door (Mark Ruffalo), and her old friend turns out to be a grounded, warm, and good-looking guy engaged to be married. She realizes that at 13 she made a fundamentally wrong decision. She had valued the wrong things, and, while she proceeded to get everything she wanted, she became a progressively more disgusting person. Jim Bell<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:08:00 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>JimBell</spout:postby><spout:postto>JimBell Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>4/18/2007 3:08:00 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>13 Going On 30&amp;mdash;I watched this because my niece said it was one of her favourite movies of the year. I had heard it described more than once as the female version of Tom Hank&amp;rsquo;s Big, which is a wonderful movie about a young boy who suddenly pops into a grown-up body, has hilarious adventures, and uses his youth to design some great toys for a toy company. If you watch 13 Going On 30 in this erroneous context, it is a failure.   If you watch the movie in its own right, it is fairly good and has something valuable to say. Thirteen-year old Jenna Rink (Christa B. Allen) wants desperately to be part of the in-crowd of snotty girls at her school, and she rejects the friendship of the friendly, chubby guy next door as part of her ambitious plan. When she flashes forward to herself at 30 (Jennifer Garner), she slowly realizes that she is a nasty, backstabbing, ambitious career bitch. To figure things out, she has her secretary track down the guy next door (Mark Ruffalo), and her old friend turns out to be a grounded, warm, and good-looking guy engaged to be married. She realizes that at 13 she made a fundamentally wrong decision. She had valued the wrong things, and, while she proceeded to get everything she wanted, she became a progressively more disgusting person. Jim Bell</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:comedy</title>
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<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 1087</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 253</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 1342</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:Great</title>
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<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 231</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 202</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 371</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:Loved-It</title>
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<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 509</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 179</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 921</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:friendship</title>
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<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 6791</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 154</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 980</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:cute</title>
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<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 210</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 98</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 314</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:teenagers</title>
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<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 3025</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 97</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 399</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:80s</title>
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<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 87</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 90</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 162</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:Guilty-Pleasure</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Guilty-Pleasure/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/Guilty-Pleasure/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>Guilty-Pleasure</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 102</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 61</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 152</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:daughter</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/daughter/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/daughter/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>daughter</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 3658</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 40</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 138</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:silly</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/silly/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/silly/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>silly</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 57</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 36</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 75</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:girl</title>
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<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 1805</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 33</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 64</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:chick-flick</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/chick-flick/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/chick-flick/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>chick-flick</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 32</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 30</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 72</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:teen</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/teen/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/teen/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>teen</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 44</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 26</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 50</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:heartwarming</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/heartwarming/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/heartwarming/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>heartwarming</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 27</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 25</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 34</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:Up</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Up/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/Up/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>Up</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 20</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 20</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 20</br><br/>
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