American Teen (2008)
Directed by Nanette Burstein
A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.
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I wish their story -- from first-time screenwriter Geoff LaTulippe and documentarian Nanette Burstein ( American Teen ), making her narrative debut -- could have relaxed enough to coast on them alone, because then it would have been fine.
Director Nanette Burstein is best known for her documentary features (such as "The Kid Stays in the Picture" and "American Teen"), which were well-made.
This is Burstein's first feature film, but she has directed several notable documentaries, including 2008's "American Teen," which took the stylish approach of an MTV reality series.
In demographic strokes, documentarian-turned-narrative director Nanette Burstein (On the Ropes, American Teen) and first-time writer Geoff LaTulippe couldn’t have concocted a better mark if they’d designed me in a lab.
In her fiction feature debut, director Nanette Burstein ("The Kid Stays in the Picture," "American Teen"), working from a first published script by Geoff LaTulippe, gives a female perspective on the Apatow brand of comedy - it's sweet and it's raunchy but the women provide much of the raunch so it's toned down a bit, still utterly hilarious but never scatalogical.
The director, Nanette Burstein, is a documentary filmmaker (“American Teen,” “Going the Distance”) making her fiction debut with a script from first-time writer Geoff LaTulippe.
Sutter is one of the year's memorable screen characters, as vibrant and compelling as Hannah Bailey, the real-life heroine of the 2008 high school documentary "American Teen."