American Teen

Title: American Teen

Director: Nanette Burstein

ISBN: 9736353584

Genre: Documentary

Medium: DVD

Audience: Older Tweens and Teens

Summary

This is a documentary film on high school seniors in a small Indiana. The film featured with five teenager characters with different personalities: jock, geek, rebel, heartthrob, and prom queen. Through these five characters, some experiences of the life of the seniors were presented in the film with different perspectives. It talked about problems might face by teens, such as courtship, applying college, pressures from and friends and family, disappointment, and dreams.

Review

This is a documentary that the events and incidents happen in the film could be happen in real-life. Tweens could get a head start on some problem they might face during teen years. Of course, senior year might be a little far from tweens, but it will be better off for them to see the problems. Tweens can learn ways to prevent and cope some of the problems. I like that film use different character to tell their stories from a different point of views. Everyone will be related to at least one of the characters.  I am kind of dislike that there are too many dramas.