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Plot Summary
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 forwarded to the wrong person 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.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
70%- Reviews Counted: 149
- Fresh: 104
- Rotten: 45
- Average Rating: 6.5/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: They all have their stories tell, some more complicated than others.
Fresh: The whirl of hormones, high hopes and hysterical drama that is high school earns its close-up in American Teen, a smart and revealing look at the Class of 2006 in Warsaw, Indiana.
Rotten: An addictive documentary that'll have you cheering and crying, then waiting for the director to jump out from behind your sofa and say it was all a big joke.
Fresh: Funny and fresh, it won't break boundaries but it will make anyone thankful for growing up.
Customer Reviews
Warsaw Rocks
I live in warsaw, so im pretty much a pro at this movie. I know the cast, even my neighbor was in this movie. Sincre I go to Warsaw High School it was a fun movie to watch. I highly recommend it. It is funny, sad, daring, and flat out fun, so if your in to those types of movies this is a great one for you, period, no questions asked. You'll love it just like I did.
Teenage Wasteland
If I were to use one word to describe this movie it would be "painful". Its pretty painful to watch a group of teens, all at different places mentally and in the maturation process, go through their day to day activities, victories, and failures. In the first 10 minutes I was considering turning it off not because it was bad, but because it was difficult to watch the insecurities of teens so clearly put on view. But alas, we all have been teens at one point, and the more I watched the more I found myself sympathizing, cheering on, or wanting to slap some of the students....and it really hit me for the first time since being a teen just what a difficult time in everyone’s life the teens are. This documentary captures that awkward time that we all have gone or will go through pretty candidly and is certainly worth a watch.
Loved it !!!
The most quintessential depiction of teenage life ever shot on film. I knew I would love this movie from the first preview I saw. Many movies are made scripted like this but this was so raw and real. It took me back to high school and it was refreshing to see that no matter where you are high schools are all the same.
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- explicit
- Various Artists