13 Going On 30
- Eloi Honorable Mention
- by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, directed by Gary Winick
- Feature Film
- Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- 13 Going on 30 by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, directed by Gary Winick (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 14 April 2004).
Everything that could go wrong is going wrong for 13-year-old Jenna Rink. If only she could be already grown up in the future!
—Michael Main
I wanna be thirty and flirty and thriving.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: Jenna’s 13th birthday in 1987.
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: At age 30.
- Timeline Models
- Do Over: A short do-over at the end with Matt coming into the closet.
- Time Travel Methods
- Wish Travel: Wishing dust (from Matt) along with “I wanna be thirty and flirty and thriving.”
- Themes
- Fix Your Own Future!: Jenna’s insight from being age thirty changes her entire future.
- I’m Old!: From age 13 to age 30.
- Travels into Yourself
Variants
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- 13 Going on 30 by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, directed by Gary Winick (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 14 April 2004).
- 13 Going on 30 by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, directed by Gary Winick (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 14 April 2004) [We could not find a separate Chinese title.].
- 30 ans sinon rien [30 years or nothing at all] by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, directed by Gary Winick (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 14 April 2004).
- De repente 30 [Suddenly 30] by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, directed by Gary Winick (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 14 April 2004).
- El sueño de mi vida [The dream of my life] by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, directed by Gary Winick (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 14 April 2004).
Translations
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- 13 Going on 30 by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, directed by Gary Winick (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 14 April 2004).
- Chinese (subtitled).
13 Going on 30 by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, directed by Gary Winick (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 14 April 2004) [We could not find a separate Chinese title.]. - French (dubbed and subtitled).
30 ans sinon rien [30 years or nothing at all] by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, directed by Gary Winick (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 14 April 2004). - Portuguese (dubbed and subtitled).
De repente 30 [Suddenly 30] by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, directed by Gary Winick (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 14 April 2004). - Spanish (subtitled).
El sueño de mi vida [The dream of my life] by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, directed by Gary Winick (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 14 April 2004).
Indexer Notes
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- Available Languages—determined by the back cover of the DVD.
- Time Travel—Despite the Spanish title, El sueño de mi vida, the story is not just a dream as evinced by the clear do-over with Matt at the end.