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Myth of the American Sleepover, The

Comedy, Drama

Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.

More information on this production is available at www.independentfilmcompany.com.

The critical consensus

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.

***(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 31/08/2012

It is a more poignant portrait of teenage angst than we are used to from US cinema and it is also surprisingly chaste.

***(*)(*)Caroline Jowett, Daily Express, 31/08/2012

I like you, too, Myth of the American Sleepover – but I'm going no further than that.

***(*)(*)Henry Barnes, The Guardian, 30/08/2012

It's an unsentimental debut of some promise and it has the ring of truth.

Philip French, The Observer, 02/09/2012

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.

****(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 20/09/2012

Soapy but hip viewing for teens.

***(*)(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 20/09/2012

Where and when?

Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Friday September 21, 2012, until Monday September 24, 2012. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/

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