Megan Krizmanich in American Teen Credit: Paramount Vantage

The new documentary American Teen plays more like an involving TV reality show. You will immediately identify with or be involved and invested in the lives of one or more of these diverse teens just trying to survive Senior year!

American Teen focuses upon several small town Indiana high school Seniors; a rich, popular girl, two jocks, the artsy girl and the gamer/band geek. The piece is narrated by pretty, smart, artsy film buff Hannah Bailey who is a liberal misfit in the conservative town. She can't wait to graduate and head to L.A. for film school and freedom but she is crippled by the meltdown of her romance. Colin Clemens is the basketball team star who suffers unrelenting pressure from his Elvis-impersonator dad to get a scholarship and play on a top team (see, this movie has bizarre reality show written all over it!).

You've got cute but acne-plagued Jake Tusing, the band geek who is quite charming and funny but full of self-doubt and on a quest for a reliable girlfriend. Megan Krizmanich is the golden girl, mean girl, prom queen, student council V. P. and daughter of a rich surgeon. Don't get on her bad side! She rules her school but has her own personal demons. Mitch Reinholdt is a gorgeous hottie Varsity basketball jock who is really a nice guy but bows to peer pressure when his buds think Hannah just isn't good enough for him to date. Creative animated dream sequences by different filmmakers accompany the teens' various daydreams or nightmares.