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The weird thing about the film is that it's being marketed not as a documentary, but as a teen flick, a modern-day John Hughes film. Check out the crazy ad campaign that has these real characters aping the poses of the teens in Hughes' popular film, "The Breakfast Club. Obviously the similarity between the two posters is deliberate, even down to the clothes they're wearing. What I don't get is who the studio is trying to reach with this ad campaign. Certainly not people my age who saw "The Breakfast Club" over twenty years ago.

In , filmmaker Keva Rosenfeld took a skeleton camera crew into your average American high school. There, he spent the entire year dipping in and out of surf classes, pep rallies, and legacy-making keg parties. The plan for the film was simply to follow a group of students from the first day of school to graduation. Only three months into filming, Rosenfeld found his lead: Finnish exchange student Rikki Rauhala. Plus, she was charming as hell. The result? It made me think how much is the same and how much is different from this culture of being a teenager.

It is presented as a documentary, and indeed these students, their friends and families are all real people, and these are their stories. But many scenes seem suspiciously staged. Is she really that unaware? She's the subject of disciplinary action in the film; why didn't she tell school officials that she only did it for the movie? Many questions like that occur while you're watching "American Teen," but once you make allowance for the factor of directorial guidance, the movie works effectively as what it wants to be: a look at these lives, in this town "mostly middle-class, white and Christian" , at this time.

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