American Teen PG-13
Remember high school? It's gotten worse.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 2, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Nanette Burstein | |
Composition by | Michael Penn | |
Produced by | Nanette Burstein, Jordan Roberts, Eli Gonda & Chris Huddleston | |
Director of Photography: | Laela Kilbourn, Wolfgang Held & Robert Hanna |
Entertainment Reviews:
It's trite but true: All life is like high school. These American teens really get under your skin....You'll be totally riveted.
Rolling Stone
AMERICAN TEEN, a documentary set in small-town Indiana, effectively captures the highs, lows and in-betweens in way that feels authentic....AMERICAN TEEN is revealing, funny and involving.
USA Today
Rating: 3/5 --
The presence of a film crew may have encouraged drama.
Time Out Chicago
Rating: 4/5 --
Funny and fresh, it won't break boundaries but it will make anyone thankful for growing up.
Little White Lies
3 stars out of 5 -- [O]nce it gets its hooks in, it's as irresistible as any reality show....What really lingers is the impression that these teens feel intense and debilitating pressure to live up to unrealistic expectations.
Total Film
Rating: 3/5 --
The documentary curriculum is sex, gossip and self-pity. Not exactly original, but disturbingly true.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 2/5 --
It's a lightly amusing film but it's also an unchallenging one which reinforces presumptions about kids rather than surprising with new insights. It floats in the shallow end of filmmaking.
Full Review
Time Out
Product Description:
After chronicling the life of movie mogul Robert Evans, director Nanette Burstein (THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE) moves to a far more familiar subject matter with AMERICAN TEEN. For this documentary, Burstein followed five teens in tiny Warsaw, Indiana, as they finish up their senior year of high school: Jake, the socially awkward but sweet school nerd; Megan, the rich, scheming queen bee; Colin, the basketball star who desperately needs an athletic scholarship to attend college; Mitch, the all-American hunk all the girls want to date; and Hannah, the artsy outsider who can't wait to leave Warsaw and its citizens behind.
Burstein captures a high school experience that lies somewhere between the MTV reality series LAGUNA BEACH and the John Hughes films of the 1980s. In fact, THE BREAKFAST CLUB is a logical jumping off point for the film's marketing campaign, and the theatrical poster smartly mimics the classic teen comedy. But AMERICAN TEEN succeeds on its own merits, thanks largely to plenty of hilarious moments and its universal, engaging subject matter. Though the film places each of the five central characters neatly into a category--geek, jock, rebel, heartthrob, and princess--each person seems entirely real. And even though their daily dramas--getting into their dream school, trying to find a prom date, and breaking up--might seem to matter less in hindsight, these are the real issues that teens face, and it's hard not to become a little nostalgic...or be very glad that those turbulent years are in the past.
Burstein captures a high school experience that lies somewhere between the MTV reality series LAGUNA BEACH and the John Hughes films of the 1980s. In fact, THE BREAKFAST CLUB is a logical jumping off point for the film's marketing campaign, and the theatrical poster smartly mimics the classic teen comedy. But AMERICAN TEEN succeeds on its own merits, thanks largely to plenty of hilarious moments and its universal, engaging subject matter. Though the film places each of the five central characters neatly into a category--geek, jock, rebel, heartthrob, and princess--each person seems entirely real. And even though their daily dramas--getting into their dream school, trying to find a prom date, and breaking up--might seem to matter less in hindsight, these are the real issues that teens face, and it's hard not to become a little nostalgic...or be very glad that those turbulent years are in the past.
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