Big Girls Don't Cry

American teen drama *Thirteen* was one of the more talked-about films in 2003, later becoming known as a springboard for the careers of director Catherine Hardwicke and actress Evan Rachel Wood. Its subject matter and controversially realistic depiction of dysfunctional teenagers also overshadowed a similar German film that had appeared a few months earlier, the 2002 drama *Big Girls Don’t Cry*, written and directed…