It was released in the same year as another movie in the trope, Tom Hanks’ “Big”.
I’m a big fan of “Big” and “13 going on 30” (2004) (also called “Suddenly 30”). BTW both “14 going on 30” and “13 going on 30” feature the song “Crazy For You” by Madonna. (in the latter film it is at the start and the end) I hadn’t really heard of that song before but now it is one of my favourite Madonna songs.
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In this movie a character makes a machine that can grow and “ungrow” living things.
The ending was nice. It was happy like “13 going on 30”.
The ending girl holds boys hand in class with nice music reminds me of the cool 1985 movie “Explorers”. For a long time I strongly wished I could go back and redo early high school like that.
“Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : 14, going, on, 30”
Board searches are kind of annoying with the two minute delay between searches, so I typically just use google. For example, to search the boards for 14 going on 30 I would type “14 going on 30 site:boards.straightdope.com” into google. Click the link to see the results:
Well I went to youtube and bought the SD version of Explorers for AU$4.99.
The ending - the 3 boys watch their spacecraft sink into the water.
Next scene - boys talking in the rain.
Next scene - in the classroom… young Ethan Hawke is playing around with a green crystal thing - his teacher asks him a question and he doesn’t know.
He unscrunches a note: “have a nice trip?”
the blonde girl he likes glances at him.
The music swells and the object casts a green glow on his face.
The scene suddenly jumps to within the electronic scene with clouds.
The boys and the girl are flying in the clouds. The girl says “Ben” and reaches out to him and after a few attempts they hold hands. Then she reaches over and kisses him.
“If this is all a dream, what happens when we wake up?”
Tom Hanks was only in the New Zealand TV adaptation of Rashomon. You remember, the one that had the daring casting choice of putting Lucy Lawless in the role originated by Toshiro Mifune.
Yes, we have been discussing 14 Going on 30, Drunky Smurf. We have been trying to tell the people who are convinced that they have seen a version of Big with a different ending that they haven’t seen any such thing. We have been telling them that they have seen both Big and 14 Going on 30 and misremembering which part of the story goes with which. We have been trying to tell them that they are adding the last scene of 14 Going on 30 to the end of Big.