All movies13 Going on 30

Rated:

PG-13 ((sexual content, brief drug references).)

Running time:

1:38 minutes

Release date:

January 1, 2005

Capsule review:

Wishing that she were older, a girl goes to sleep one day at age 13 and wakes up. . . as 30-year-old Jennifer Garner! There's not much about this teen fantasy that's original, from the switching bodies theme to the notion that second chances can help us learn the lessons we missed the first time around. Yet the difference is, one, the fact that director Gary Winick (working from a group-written script) is able to have a sad and happy ending at once; two, the fact that the central role is played by Garner. Most known for her action role in the ongoing television series ``Alias,'' Garner has already proven that she can do roundhouse kicks. And here she proves that she can make us laugh. Forget ``Daredevil,'' the film that she co-starred with Ben Affleck (a sure career killer). This is the real Garner, a 21st-century Julia Roberts.