SummaryAMERICAN TEEN is the touching and hilarious Sundance hit that follows the lives of four teenagers - a jock, a popular girl, a heartthrob, an artsy girl and a geek – in one small town in Indiana through their senior year of high school. We see the insecurities, the cliques, the jealousies, the first loves and heartbreaks, and the struggle to make ... Read More
Directed By:Nanette Burstein
Written By:Nanette Burstein
American Teen
Metascore
Generally Favorable
66
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
62% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
34% Mixed
10 Reviews
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3% Negative
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100
The documentary American Teen is the most realistic movie you will see all summer.
88
The kids are real and their stories enthralling: When it comes to drama, there's nothing quite like high school.
75
An entertaining slice-of-life documentary that gets ever more fascinating as it moves along.
70
Even when it's ripping off "Juno" and "The Hills," American Teen is fascinating in the way of every good documentary--the more time you spend with anyone, the more they surprise you.
60
This is the kind of movie the people in it might have made, which means that its revelatory power as an investigation of teenage life in America is limited.
50
Unsurprisingly, the formulaic "Breakfast Club" casting yields a formulaic narrative.
20
At times it's almost like "Lord of the Flies," with the camera serving as the flypaper dipped in the honey of the promised land of celebrity.
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Production Company:
- 57th & Irving Productions
- A&E IndieFilms
- Blacklist
- Firehouse Films
- QuasiWorld Entertainment
Release Date:Jul 25, 2008
Duration:1 h 35 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:Remember high school? It's gotten worse.
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
