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''Thirteen13 Going On Thirty30'' is a [[Romantic Comedy]] movie about a girl named Jenna Rink ([[Jennifer Garner]]) who is 13 and suffers from the ageless drama of 13-year-old girls: she doesn't have enough boobs, she doesn't have enough cool clothes, [[Jerk Jock|she doesn't have a beautiful and popular boyfriend]], and she definitely doesn't [[In With the In Crowd|have friends among the In Crowd]].
 
As a solution to this, she [[Be Careful What You Wish For|wishes]] to become older and successful and beautiful and popular and pretty much everything else. So, with [[Applied Phlebotinum|a little help from a magic dust]], she ages seventeen years in a blink, and wakes up as powerful magazine editor, whose best friend is Lucy Wyman, aka Tom-Tom ([[Judy Greer]]) [[Alpha Bitch|the old queen bee]] at her school.
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* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Tom-Tom (a.k.a. Lucy) in her high school days.
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: So, you want to be thirty AND''and'' have money AND''and'' power AND''and'' boobs? Absurd. The only way you'll ever have all that is if you became a Class A Bitch.
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: {{spoiler|Jenna to Matt, right before his wedding}}.
* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Jenna, of course. Yes, she may have turned out to be a 30-year-old bitch, but she certainly isn't dumb.
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* [[Character Development]]: Jenna realizes that maybe there's more to life than money and success. Something more along the lines of Becoming A Better Person.
* [[Corrupt the Cutie]]: In this case, Jenna kind of corrupts herself, but...
* [[Dance Line]]: Jenna does this during the "Thriller" dance part.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: The key songs in the movie are "Jessie's Girl," "Love Is A Battlefield" and "Thriller" -- hits in 1981, 1983 and 1984 respectively, which don't really seem credible for a 13-year-old girl in ''1987'' (which she would have to be, since the film was released in 2004) to have at the top of her fave raves list -- and someone on the production must have known this, hence Jenna bursting into the much more plausible "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung (from 1986).
* [[Doting Parent]]
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Tom-Tom. I mean, Tom-Tom?
** Not that Jenna's is any better -- "Sweetbottom"? (Mind you, many men would agree it fits considering she's played by Jennifer Garner.)
* [[Emotional Torque]]: The [[Older Than Television|always present]] Aaaaaaaw Sound, mostly. Specially at the end, {{spoiler|when the Loving Couple finally get together}}.
* [[Falling in Love Montage]]
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* [[Growing Up Sucks]]
* [[Happily Ever After]]: What did you expect?
* [[Hey ItsIt's That Guy]]: Jenna's boss is frikkin' [[Lord of the Rings (Film)|Gollum!]]
** Younger Matt was [[Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends|Mac]]
*** Older Matt is [[The Avengers|Bruce Banner]].
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* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Jenna concerning Lucy.
* [[Just Friends]]: Jenna and Matt.
* [[Market -Based Title]]: For no apparent reason, the movie was released in Australia and Brazil as ''Suddenly 30''.
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Jenna}} had been feeding a rival fashion magazine with ideas for articles that her magazine had been coming up with.
* [[NamesName's the Same]]: [[Awkward (TV)|Jenna and Matty]]
* [[Overnight Age Up]]
* [[Popular History]]: The version of 1987 in which 13-year-old Jenna lives like a modern-day '80s-themed party.
* [[RaceforRace For Your Love]]: {{spoiler|Jenna rushing to catch Matt at his wedding.}}
* [[Separated At Birth Casting]]: Christa Allen as Young Jenna. Jennifer Garner says that she looks identical to her when she was that age and the two were castedcast in similar roles in ''Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past''.
* [[Sleep Mask]]: Used by Jenna when she wakes up as adult.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Jenna, when she wakes up 30, finds she is not the nice young girl she used to be.
* [[The Reveal]]: Done ''twice'' because {{spoiler|the first-time viewers in the audience wouldn't know the significance of the letter from the rival ''Sparkle Magazine'' that turns up in her mail in the first reveal either}}.
* [[Or Was It a Dream?]]
* [[Reset Button]]
* [[Ridiculously Successful Future Self]]
* [[True LovesLove's Kiss]]: Again, what did you expect?
* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]
* [[X Meets Y]]: [[Big]] meets [[Regarding Henry]] with liberal sprinkling of [[Peggy Sue Got Married]] in reverse.
* [[You Can Leave Your Hat On]]: Jenna's boyfriend in a very-not-sexy scene.
** To "Ice Ice, Baby" by [[Vanilla Ice (Music)|Vanilla Ice]], yet!
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: To Matt's fiance
* [[When She Smiles]]: The late night walk between Jenna and Matt.
 
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