The Myth of the American Sleepover (2010)


This is a film that is trying to convince children to stay young. It doesn't work. Nobody has sex, despite an R rating. It seems to be packaging a message of avoiding urges to become an adult, to impede stepping into the larger world of discovery. This message should fall on deaf ears. The kids smoke black pot (see: brick weed). They flirt and kiss in dark corners of strange deserted factories. But they really aren't that bad. These are good kids, growing into normal people. In that way, it is realistic.

I do understand the message. Leaving behind that world of play and imagination is such a terrible detriment. The movie doesn't really provide any dire consequences for choosing the other path. There aren't any characters that choose to defy the film's mandate, only all around innocence. It instead shows a bunch of nobody actors engaging in nobody actions. It was a well acted, adequately shot, film.

Final Thoughts: 
Baggy jeans. No-name actors doing decent work. Do I know that actor from somewhere? You don't.

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