Movie · Netflix · 2022
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13: The Musical
49Watch it awake.
The party is the idol again. The songs are fun. The rite is trying to climb out from under them.
The review
Evan Goldman moves, his parents have split, and he tries to buy a new life with invitations. The musical is cheerful about the scheme and, late, ashamed of it in the way these stories are ashamed: a song, a correction, a party that still happens. Pair it with the Sandler bat mitzvah film already on the desk. Same lesson, more rhymes.
Fine at thirteen. Ask what the ceremony is for if the popular boy does not come.
Journal
Keep 13: The Musical in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Republic are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
La La Land
60 instead of 49
La La Land is still a musical film, and it scores 60 instead of 49. What you gain is industry: Auditions, practice, a club, a tour.
The eight
- 4Industry
Rehearsal is real. Popularity is the wage.
- 5Household
A mother starting over. A father on a phone. Friends who might become a people.
- 5Piety
A bar mitzvah is the engine, not a backdrop, even while the DJ looms.
- 5Courage
He has to risk the cool table.
- 4Republic
A middle school as the whole state.
- 5Temperance
Mild. The meanness is social, and it is the joke for too long.
- 6Truth
The turn is that the guest list was the small thing.
- 5Stewardship
A rite exists to hand a child to something older than the cafeteria.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
Live Historic · 13: The Musical · 49IMDb tt3975918
