After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants
to just hide until she's thirty. Thanks to some wishing dust, Jenna's
prayer has been answered. With a knockout body, a dream apartment, a
fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar
friends, this can't be a better life. Unfortunetly, Jenna realizes that
this is not what she wanted. The only one that she needs is her childhood
best friend, Matt, a boy that she thought destroyed her party. But when she
finds him, he's a grown up, and not the same person that she knew.
Jenna Rink is a typical preteen girl who wants more than anything to grow
up. On her 13th birthday, Jenna's only wish is to get older and fast. When
she wakes up the next morning, she's 30 years old, a sucessful magazine
editor with a live-in boyfriend! Jenna tracks down Matt(her best friend
when she was younger) to try and figure out what has happened.
Jenna Rink has two wishes - to become one of the school cool girls, and to
be thirty - rather than be coming up to thirteen and hanging around with
uncool Matt. After her disastrous birthday party an accidental sprinkling
of magic dust makes both wishes come true and she finds herself at thirty
as a highly successful New York fashion editor. Luckily she locates Matt
for help on how her new world works, but as she finds out how she has
behaved since that birthday party she increasingly discovers someone she
thoroughly dislikes.
It's 1987, and geeky Jenna wants to be popular. After her 13th birthday
party goes awry, Jenna wishes she could just be 30 instead - only to wake
up and discover that she's flash-forwarded 17 years. Now a sexy, successful
magazine editor, Jena finds out that being an adult isn't necessarily all
it's cracked up to be.
The movie 13 going on 30 focuses on a young teenage girl by the name of
Jenna Rink who suffers a humiliating thirteenth birthday and makes a wish
to skip ahead to when she is thirty years old. Through the magic of some
wishing dust her wish comes true. The movie then transports us to a
thirty-year-old Jenna with the exception that she is only still thirteen on
the inside but doesn't remember anything since her thirteenth birthday. She
soon realizes that her thirty-year-old self has everything that she wanted
when she was younger, such as a cool apartment, a fabulous wardrobe, and a
dream job. Jenna soon realizes that even though she has everything she
could ever want when she was younger, there is still something missing.
Without her best friend from 1987, she gets her assistant to track down
Matt. To her dismay she learns that her and Matt have been estranged since
high school and that Matt is now engaged. When Jenna shows up at Matt's
wedding, he gives Jenna back the dream house that she once through at him
during her thirteenth birthday. Jenna leaves to find out that the wishing
dust still works because we are then pulled back to the past to see a
different story. Jenna tells off the girl she once wanted to be like and
runs up the stairs with Matt to find that their getting married as there
adult selves.
