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Colin Clemens, Hannah Bailey, Jake Tusing, Megan Krizmanich, Mitch Reinholt, Nanette Burstein
"American Teen" follows the lives of five 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 ...( read more
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Id: 10887057
According to this documentary, high school soap operas and teen movies have had it right from the start. This isn't a gritty expose of some secret way of life. It's just American high school as we've all come to expect it. Cool alternative girl, geek, jock and the princess are ou...( read more)
"American Teen" is a self-professed documentary that comes off as little more than a slightly ambitious episode of The Real World. For what it's worth, however, the stories presented here are at times touching, and there is a sense of authenticity that we get from the students th...( read more)
Cute cute cute documentary. So what if it might have been staged (as many arguments pose)? It still felt like the best teen movie ever--because they were real teenagers. Hollywood has nothing on how true that feels.
I don't care how staged and scripted this doc is, how many dumb critics/audience members think it's all a big cliche, or how reminiscent the stories are to episodes of Laguna Beach or The Hills, this is a 100% accurate description of high school life. It covers people from every...( read more)
American Teen is a movie that sets very high standards for itself, but I don't think it ever really achieves them. Though it provides five interesting teenage stories, it never really arrives at a conclusion. Some of the events also felt staged to me. It was like an epi...( read more)
A documentary that surprised the crap out of me. It follows 6 students at the same school during their senior year. It actually manages to subvert some cliches and such, ie- the rich, queen bee bitch type has a conscience after pulling a mean prank and the meanest of all the stud...( read more)
This was a great movie showing people what high school is really like no matter how much people want to pull the wool over their eyes. Its funny, its sad and real showing all sides to the high school cliques and social workings.
Ne znam zasto, al skroz sam uzivala u ovom dokumentarcu. Nekad mi bas pasu takvi dokumentarci, a jos kad se nadu razmazene americke tinejderice, di ces bolje... Moran priznat da san se i nasla u ulozi "Hannah" :) U svakom slucaju, ovi dokumentarac ili volis ili ne.
