American Teen | It might better be called American Middle-Class White Midwestern Teen -- With Stupid Parents.

Besides some scenes that appear staged for the camera, the Nanette Burstein's film stumbles in a few other ways, most notably in how it's so thoroughly unoriginal and reminiscent of just about every senior-year-of-high-school documentary you can name. It also feels uncomfortably like those silly MTV half-docs Laguna Beach and The Hills, and Burstein's cameras seem to be too lucky too often. I'm ...