How did I make it to the Year of Our Lordt 2022 before viewing the cinematic MASTERPIECE that is "13 Going On 30"? @Todd_Garner
This movie is FUN. It captures that 13 year old girl barbarous insecurity but manages to hit all the right notes too
One of the low-key ways it succeeds is THE SOUNDTRACK and the relative importance of MTV in that era (I was 14 in 1987). Rick Springfield, THRILLER, Pat Benatar's "Love is a Battlefield" 💯
And the record-scratch jump from those glorious 80s to the heroine's nothing-burger hockey boyfriend lip-syncing Vanilla Ice in his tighty-whities was just....🤌
I also LOVED that the heroine WAS the real villain in the story. She was both the agent of here chaos AND the victim of it. And she learned from that and she decided to change ❤️
The leads were just perfectly cast 💯
Not just Mark Ruffalo, another future Marvel actor was in it... blink and you'll miss Brie Larson as a 13 yr old mean girl. (My 15yo asked why movie 80s kids were so mean, I had no answers)
Anyway, I gave birth to my eldest in 2004 so I missed a lot of pop culture and current events from this period. I'm so glad I caught up!
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