Atlanta Film Festival 2008 : American Teen

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American Teen

Nanette Burstein

Categories: Documentary Feature

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Run time: 95 min. | USA

American Teen intimately follows the lives of four teenagers in one small town in Indiana through their senior year of high school. Using cinema vérité footage, interviews, and animation, it presents a candid portrait of being a teenager and all that goes with it. A modern day “Breakfast Club”, we see the insecurities, the cliques, the jealousies, the first loves and heartbreaks, and the struggle to make profound decisions about the future. A hit at Sundance, the film picked up the Documentary Directing Award there for Nanette Burstein, the Oscar-nominated director of On the Ropes.

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7:30 PM Fri, Apr 11		Landmark Midtown #4	+ add to cal	buy tickets

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Rated 4.0/5 Stars 1 2 3 4 5 jacktorrance 11:50 AM		I was really absorbed by this even though I wondered how much of it was really documentary and how much was maybe "re-enacted." Some of the closeups were just too perfect to be believed. But it was a fantastic group of kids that the director found, with some heartbreaking stories behind very funny situations. The "Queen Bee" girl, Megan, is strangely more compelling — and appealing — than the punky alternative girl! What I didn't like so much was the animated interludes. Maybe one or two of these would have been effective but there were several too many, I think. Still, this is a very likable and entertaining film.