American Teen

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American Teen

PG-13

2008

1h 40m

Documentary

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Four high-school seniors navigate their way through the ups and downs of life in their small Indiana town. Hannah is bright and pretty, but a misfit who wants to move to California after graduation. Colin, a basketball player, feels intense pressure to make his town and family proud and earn a sports scholarship. Jake is painfully shy in a group. Megan is smart, pretty and wealthy, and rules the roost at school. Popular Mitch risks his social status to date Hannah.

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Critics Consensus

American Teen skates some thin ice with its documentary ethics but, in the end, presents a charming and stylish (if packaged) tale.

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Limara Salt

Little White Lies

Funny and fresh, it won't break boundaries but it will make anyone thankful for growing up.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 7, 2009

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Andrew Male

Empire Magazine

Despite its flashy approach, American Teen remains emotionally involving because of the lives on show. You will care about these people, even if you suspect the director doesn't.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 6, 2009

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Dave Calhoun

Time Out

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.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 6, 2009

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

One of the best films ever made about the high school experience.

Rated: 3.5/4.0

Sep 2, 2020

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Annie Wagner

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

American Teen succeeds in being exactly as crisp, entertaining, and useless as a romantic comedy.

Aug 21, 2017

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Kevin Craft

Miami Herald

This is not compelling film making; it just makes you hope that these kids will lighten up and learn to enjoy life.

Rated: 1.5/4

Apr 6, 2015

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Munkhjargal A

This movie turned out to be a very good movie. It has become a work that has been greatly enjoyed by the audience. I think that the work was born because of the director's poor thinking. It turned out to be a movie that I liked very much. I would like to thank the director and actors.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/01/24

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Bahad j

This idea of the film shooting technique director made the film more attractive to people.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/31/24

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Four high-school seniors navigate their way through the ups and downs of life in their small Indiana town. Hannah is bright and pretty, but a misfit who wants to move to California after graduation. Colin, a basketball player, feels intense pressure to make his town and family proud and earn a sports scholarship. Jake is painfully shy in a group. Megan is smart, pretty and wealthy, and rules the roost at school. Popular Mitch risks his social status to date Hannah.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/31/24

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Geke g

Nostalgic and enjoyable American film.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/27/24

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Munkhchimeg T

Seems nostalgic movie. Everyone’s life that they go through is not easy and beautiful.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/27/24

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Audience Member

Nostalgic time capsule with little relation and nothing new to offer nor convincingly natural out of suspected contractual staged, invasive observations that feels composited of better teenage genre offering through film and TV than this disinteresting irrelevance. (B-)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Nanette Burstein

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Hannah Bailey

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Megan Krizmanich

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Jake Tusing

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Colin Clemens

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Mitch Reinholt

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Synopsis

Four high-school seniors navigate their way through the ups and downs of life in their small Indiana town. Hannah is bright and pretty, but a misfit who wants to move to California after graduation. Colin, a basketball player, feels intense pressure to make his town and family proud and earn a sports scholarship. Jake is painfully shy in a group. Megan is smart, pretty and wealthy, and rules the roost at school. Popular Mitch risks his social status to date Hannah.

Director: Nanette Burstein
Producer: Nanette Burstein, Eli Gonda, Chris Huddleston, Owen Katz, Karen Lawler, Anna Molund, Jordan Roberts
Screenwriter: Nanette Burstein
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Quasiworld Entertainment, Firehouse Films
Rating: PG-13 (Brief Smoking|All Involving Teens|Sexual Material|Some Drinking|Some Strong Language)
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 25, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $940.5K
Runtime: 1h 40m

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