American Teen is supposed to be a documentary about 5 high school kids who each nicely fit into some of the stereotypes that we all think of when we look at high school kids. There are several problems with this approach, including the fact that not all kids fall into these neatly labeled groups. We are supposed to have jocks, prom queens, geeks, heart-throbs, and rebels at every school in the United States apparently. While this may in fact occur sometimes, not everyone falls squarely into those categories, and this documentary does its best to pigeonhole these 5 kids into those roles, regardless of what they might actually be.



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