Popularity is everything; breakups and missed jump-shots are the end of the world; a college acceptance is a dream come true; and an email forward to the wrong per is your worst nightmare.
Now experience senior year of high school through the eyes of five real-life Indiana teenagers: the Prom Queen, the Heartthrob, the Jock, the Rebel and the Geek. This revealing year-in-the-life feature delivers the real heartbreak, hilarity, and – OMG – drama of senior year first-hand from five very different viewpoints. And no matter who you identify with, everyone will relate to AMERICAN TEEN
Some trivia:
Through this movie Nanette Burstein manages to move us and show that although technology and fashion may change throughout the years, the reflections of 17 year old teenagers remain the same.
- The movie was the big surprise of the Sundance festival where it won the direction award.
- Shots of the movie lasted 10 months , and the students where left free to improvize.
- Burstein was looking for a town and school from all social and economical levels. Eventually, the town was Indiana and the school the Warshow.
- The hardest part of the movie was the montage. The 1000 hours should be transformed to 100 minutes.
- The soundtrack of the movie involves pieces of music from bands such as : MGMT, The Ting Tings, the Black Kids, Frou Frou, Blackalicious, Does It Offend You, Yeah?.
