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American Teen
Nanette Burstein
Categories: Documentary Feature
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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Rated 5.0/5 Stars
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mjeanes
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 User Thumbnail American Teen was fantastic. Someone asked me today if I thought that it was going to be depressing as soon as I told them it was a documentary, and I had to roll my eyes. Like so many good documentaries that go unseen, American Teen is the perfect movie to sell people on the idea that a documentary film can be just as if not more entertaining than a narrative. The film deftly weaves together the stories of these fairly ordinary kids into something with an extraordinary amount of drama ans heart. I think this set the bar for the Atlanta Film Festival impossibly high, but I'm anxious to see what else is in store.
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