Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.
Perhaps a little more drama wouldn't have gone amiss, but then eventlessness is part of its purpose. This is teenage as an American Truffaut would see it, with a woozy charm reminiscent of Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides.
It is a more poignant portrait of teenage angst than we are used to from US cinema and it is also surprisingly chaste.
I like you, too, Myth of the American Sleepover – but I'm going no further than that.
It's an unsentimental debut of some promise and it has the ring of truth.
Boosted by likeable performances by a cast of unknowns who actually look like real teenagers, this is both a refreshing take on a beloved genre and a useful corrective to that other strain of kids-gone-haywire films that treat adolescence as a ludicrously high-stakes, life-or-death proposition.
Soapy but hip viewing for teens.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Friday September 21, 2012, until Monday September 24, 2012. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/