13 Going on 30 🎥 2004 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In 1987 in New Jersey, nerdy 13-year-old Jenna Rink yearns to be popular. She persuades the Six Chicks, her school’s ruling clique led by “Tom-Tom”, to attend her birthday party by doing their homework for them. Jenna’s best friend and next-door neighbor, Matty Flamhaff, secretly in love with her, gifts her a handmade dollhouse and sprinkles the roof with “magic wishing dust.” The Six Chicks arrive with a group of boys, including Jenna’s crush Chris Grandy. They trick Jenna into believing Chris is going to play “seven minutes in heaven” with her while they leave with the completed homework.

When Matty discovers her in the closet, a humiliated Jenna barricades herself and tearfully wishes to be “thirty and flirty and thriving” as the wishing dust falls on her. The next morning, Jenna awakens as an adult in a luxurious Fifth Avenue apartment in 2004, dating a young man she does not recognize and with no memory of the intervening seventeen years. Upon further investigation, she learns that she now works as an editor for her favorite fashion magazine, Poise, alongside her co-editor and best friend, Lucy Wyman. However, the magazine is falling behind its arch-rival Sparkle, which her editor-in-chief, Richard Kneeland, believes is the work of a saboteur.

A confused Jenna locates Matty, now a struggling photographer, in Greenwich Village. He explains that in high school, she became the new head of the Six Chicks and subsequently stopped speaking to him; she also learns that Lucy is Tom-Tom. As she adjusts to her new adult life, Jenna gradually learns that the person she has become is nothing like her shy, sweet teenage self; the adult Jenna plagiarized ideas, became estranged from her parents, and had an affair with a co-worker’s husband. After overhearing Lucy plotting to remove her from a presentation on a Poise rebrand, Jenna returns to her childhood home to reunite with her parents before reconciling with Matty.

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