It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

Tracy's suffering from an intense bout of self-conscious peer-pressure and there is seemingly no lengths she won't go to in order to ingratiate herself with the coolest kids in class. Soon enough Tracy is best buddies with Evie and so begins a spiral into petty crime and drugs, an uncontrollable descent that leaves Tracy's mother horrified and impotent. 'Thirteen' is a powerful and unflinching story that explains the allure as much as it shows the destruction, and is based on the teenage exper find out more...