American Teen Page #3

Synopsis: A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Nanette Burstein
Production: Paramount Vantage
  2 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
70%
PG-13
Year:
2008
95 min
$785,817
Website
172 Views


... Veterans Day recognition program...

Come on. If there's any possibility,

I want to give it a try.

I'll walk with you.

No?

We will have the band playing

patriotic songs,

and then we will have

the posting of the colors...

Can I just have one day?

The rum of Captain.

- Amen.

- Amen.

Mine, dude.

Do you realize how quick

we're gonna get drunk?

- Ali can't have more than five.

- Yeah, that's definitely gonna spin her.

Okay, you ready?

My first kiss was in spin the bottle.

Your first BJ was in...

My first BJ was in a serious relationship

that I had, okay?

Ali is my really close friend.

Oh, wait, no, we gotta

show them our handshake.

Geoff is my best friend.

I've known Geoff the 17 years

that I've been alive.

I remember playing with him

when we were little.

...turn the key, smash it together,

best friends forever.

Hey, Megan, you spin it first.

- I feel so on tonight.

- Megan, come on. Easy with it.

Gonna be my new word, a "bimho."

It's me. You have to make out with me.

Okay.

It's 3:
15 in the morning,

and I just saw the most amazing thing

I've ever seen.

Look, dude.

Okay, can we just make this brief?

All right, real fast, real fast, real fast.

Oh, my God.

It's my turn.

It's Geoff.

Even though Geoff is not my boyfriend,

I look at Geoff with girls

and it's just weird.

Geoff is like a brother, and I get jealous.

Ali, easy, easy, easy, tiger.

Three. Three.

That was four. Shut up.

- Let me live a little, man.

- Three.

My best friend Geoff

with my close friend Erica.

"Let me rub your back."

The blanket's coming out.

Sharing a blanket.

"Let's get comfy."

I don't know, I don't think he should just

be randomly fooling around with girls.

Megan, sh*t happens!

Testosterone is flowing.

Was it really that bad of a thing?

Oh, you're calling me

to tell me happy birthday?

Erica? Hey, tell her to slut up.

That's why she wants

to come over here... Cat fight.

- Man, we should do something to her.

- Like what?

I don't know.

Megan will think of something, though.

Piss off Megan, you're gonna get it.

Erica sent me an e-mail.

Oh, my God.

Erica sent me a picture

of herself topless.

It was our own little secret.

It was harmless, but, of course...

Erica sent the picture to me and Skylar,

and Skylar sent the picture to Ali.

I sent it to Katie, Gaby and Jarod.

And then I sent it to Megan.

Oh, my God.

I'm so happy. I'm so happy.

Hilarious.

Look at her.

Oh, my God!

Holy!

Oh, my gosh.

This is awesome.

From Roman history, who were the

patricians and who were the plebeians?

Do you remember that?

Oh, God, it was bad. Everybody saw it.

People had it on their phones.

- What is it?

- Erica.

Rumor has it

that the administration saw it.

I mean,

my dad ended up seeing the photo.

Look at it. It's funny.

- Hey, there's a website.

- No, there's not.

I swear on my life.

You Google Erica, it comes up now.

- Oh, my God!

- It was a joke.

I don't even think it should have been

sent to anyone in the first place.

...stupid.

I just need Erica's number.

I really think

she's seriously had enough.

- No.

- Ready? Take your phone.

This is terrible.

I'm in Chicago,

so leave your name,

I will definitely call you back.

Not only are you a slut,

but you're also dumb.

Megan, this is just...

I've seen your titties,

and so has everyone else.

Your parents know.

Your priest knows.

And above all, God knows.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news,

but you're sentenced to be a slut

for the rest of your life.

- Amen.

- Amen.

Let me leave her one.

- Okay, are you ready?

- Yeah.

Like, oh, my gosh, I was online today

looking at natty ho's,

and your picture popped up, and you

were, like, topless, and I thought,

"Who the hell would put a natty

picture of themselves like that online,

"when your body is not even that nice

and your tits are not even that nice?"

- Oh, my God.

- That was mean.

What if she kills herself in the morning?

- She won't.

- We'll leave her a message

telling her not to kill herself,

that life will get better.

It's been hard.

I know what people are thinking.

I get phone calls

in the middle of the night

that are just really, really mean.

I know Megan actually called me

a couple of times,

but they are just doing this

just probably 'cause they're bored

or something like that.

So, I definitely didn't take any of it

to heart or whatever.

But it was still hard to hear those things.

Want to hold my hand? Hold my hand.

My goal after four years of college

is you to be able to fit in this uniform

- and establish your own Elvis identity.

- All right.

All right, after basketball,

after academics,

after it's all said and done,

I want you to be Elvis for me.

- Can you do it?

- No.

Okay, I figured so.

My dad used to play basketball.

He played at Warsaw.

He's in the hall of fame there

and stuff, so...

A lot of the basketball coaches

will expect me to be good

because of my dad.

That's my man, grab the ball.

Get that ball, buster.

Now take it to the hoop, score a basket.

Make a basket.

Colin, are you going to make a basket?

Are you going

to shoot a basket for Dad?

Oh, yeah, look at that.

He got hang time like his old man.

Oh, yeah!

Yeah, baby. Shoot a basket, Colin.

At first, it was like I was doing it

because my dad wanted me to.

At first, when I was really little,

I didn't really understand it then.

- To the hoop! That's my man!

- Oh, yeah!

Thumbs up, Colin! Thumbs up!

That's my man!

I love it now. I love it.

Yeah, he taught me

to love it, pretty much.

You know, you're going to have

college recruiters there tomorrow.

I would make sure that

I had 12 rebounds tomorrow.

Of course.

I'm serious. Dad doesn't have money

for college, but if you get 12 rebounds,

everything else will fall into place,

and they'll say, "Hey, we've got to get

that Clemens kid on the team."

Otherwise, it's the Army.

Yeah.

Let's go, let's go.

A flip to Clemens. Clemens shoots, up...

Good.

Colin Clemens has

nine first-quarter points.

It's 11-2, Warsaw. The Tigers

have scored 11 straight points.

Left side, Clemens,

who scored 13 the first quarter,

but has been stone-cold since.

And we're starting to see

a little bit of unraveling.

You noticed it, I noticed it right there.

In the lane, Caroll's shot is good.

Now it becomes

anybody's game at this point.

Warsaw still down 45-44.

Get out the heart medicine, folks,

you're going to need the whole bottle.

- Let's go, Tigers!

- Let's go, Tigers!

And Clemens will shoot two.

So you wanna be the star,

so you wanna be the hero.

You gotta make these two.

You just have to.

Go, Colin!

Oh, I thought Colin, for sure,

was going to get that in there,

but he couldn't make the shot.

And now, Clemens for the second one.

Up in the air, missed it.

Come on, man!

The timer went out. The game is over.

A crushing defeat for the Tigers.

It's been a tough night for Colin.

He can't make a free throw.

Hey, Tiger sports fans, I'm Danielle.

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Nanette Burstein

Nanette Burstein (born May 23, 1970) is an American film and television director. Burstein has produced, directed, and co-directed documentaries including an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary and the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Documentary. more…

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