American Teen Review
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Nanette Burstein’s American Teen has become ubiquitous since its Sundance premiere, both on the festival circuit and, thanks to a poster carefully calibrated to target Gen X nostalgia , online . Its title suggests a wishful universality, as if to say, “This is it! This is an unfiltered portrait of averageness!” Certainly, its semi-rural Indiana location was chosen for its ...
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American Teen seems as fake as a $3 bill
Published 8/4/2008 by Chris at Movie Marketing Madness
... Add to that worries that the film’s director might have done more than a little coaching of responses, or done extra takes in order to capture a recreation of something she might have missed (everyone play in their minds the scene from Broadcast News where William Hurt does just that during an interview now) and you have a movie that has little to no credibility, at least not to anyone who pays that much attention to the media world or to the genuine documentary market. ...
