13 Going on 30 Inspired Dog Names

One of the most prominent characters in the film 13 Going On 30 is Lucy. Lucy is a beautiful name for a dog, but it’s helpful if you can attribute that name to dogs in pop culture, so you know it’s suitable in a variety of situations. Fortunately, with this name, you can. Lucy in 13 Going On 30 shares the same name as a lovable Labrador Retriever.

Lucy appears in a 2008 film called Wendy and Lucy. Wendy is a woman who is down on her luck, and Lucy is her Labrador Retriever who she loses! This dramatic film comes from a short story called Train Choir and follows the vagrant Wendy who travels to Alaska with Lucy in search of work.

Her car breaks down in Oregon, and she finds herself with no money and no way of fixing her vehicle. Wendy leaves Lucy outside a supermarket as she goes in to try and shoplift dog food. She gets caught, arrested and receives a fine before being released. She races back to the supermarket, only to find that Lucy is gone.

Wendy discovers that the pound took Lucy and subsequently found her a new home. In the meantime, she realizes her car is beyond affordable repair, and she now has no dog, either. She visits Lucy, vows to come back for her, and leaves. The movie is powerful and received favorable ratings in the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

Lucy is also one of the main characters in 13 Going on 30. She goes by the nickname of Tom-Tom and appears both when Jenna is 13 and 30. Lucy is a snarky and pretentious character that forms one of the six “popular” girls that Jenna wants to become. She’s a bully, considers herself superior to others, and does horrible things on Jenna’s birthday.

When Jenna “wakes up” as a 30-year-old, Lucy is now Jenna’s best friend, but because of significant plastic surgery, Jenna doesn’t immediately make the connection. Instead, she relishes in her “new” role at Poise magazine, one she loved as an adolescent, working side-by-side with Lucy.

What she quickly discovers, however, is that Lucy is as conniving as she was as a young teen. They go head to head to reinvigorate their failing brand against the competing magazine Sparkle, but Lucy uses tactics that end up ruining their “friendship".

Through a series of complicated events, Jenna realizes what she was missing out on as a 13-year-old, gets her friendship with Matty back on track, and uses the same magical dust to transport her back through time. Lucy gets her comeuppance, and Jenna retains her friendship with Matty.