13 Going on 30
All Jenna Rink wanted to be was thirty and flirty. Stuck in a time when she wanted to be cool instead of original, being thirty meant waiting for another seventeen years. Her attempt to be part of the popular clique has failed miserably and she has also managed to scare away her best friend Matt. With nobody left, wishing dust comes falling from a dollhouse and next thing Jenna knows, she looks just like Jennifer Garner from Alias. She finds herself in Manhattan, a big-time editor of the magazine Poise and she's 30. She quickly finds Matt (Mark Ruffalo) but figures out that by then, they were complete strangers. She also comes to realize the horrible life she has lived and makes it a point to correct all her wrongdoings. Added to the puzzle is a redesign of her magazine brought upon by their competitor's success.

While this film doesn't bring about the same feelings that the film "Big" with Tom Hanks could produce, the singular thing going for it is the charm of Garner. She brings to this role the certain aura that she really is a kid at heart. It certainly helps to have a distinguished actor by her side in Ruffalo, who has fallen from the radar the past few years but hopefully, he'll come back in a big way. The story hurts a bit, placing Jenna in inevitable scenes of adjustment, sometimes to painful results, and some situations in her adult life are a little bit out there, but Garner saves the day as your eyes keep roving the screen to look out for her. 3 stars