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The Myth of the American Sleepover
Directed by
David Robert Mitchell
Not Rated
2010
1h 36m
Drama
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Romance
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6.3
80%
51%
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Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.
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Cast of The Myth of the American Sleepover
Claire Sloma
Maggie
Marlon Morton
Rob Salvati
Amanda Bauer
Claudia
Brett Jacobsen
Scott Holland
Nikita Ramsey
Ady Abbey
Jade Ramsey
Anna Abbey
Amy Seimetz
Julie Higgins
Megan Boone
Kerri Sullivan
Annette DeNoyer
Beth
Wyatt McCallum
Marcus
Mary Wardell
Jen Holland
Douglas Diedrich
Steven
Mai Hlee Xiong
Susan
Dane Jones
Emma
Shayla Curran
Janelle Ramsey
Christopher Simon
Sean Barber
Madi Ortiz
Avalina Height
Stephen M. Francis III
Cameron Nichols
Drew Machak
Andy
Kathleen McEneaney
Katie Parke
Olivia Coté
Mandy Salvati
Danny Agar
Tom Higgins
Amelia Anderson
Pam
Hannah Nelson
Redhead Girl
Gino Raona
Jeff
Lauren Romanowski
Laurie
Marnie Lewbel
Rob's Mother
Laura Ortiz
Avalina's Mother
Kimberly Lilly
Dancer
Claire R. Call
Dancer
Shelley Fager-Bajorek
Dance Instructor
Walter McCarthy
Drunk Kid
Peter Flannery II
Drunk Kid's Friend
Josh Hartkorn
Annoying Kid
Diane LaRue
University Faculty Woman
Tiffany Bowery
Make-out Maze Girl
Paris Bowery
Make-out Maze Girl
Robert Harmon
Radio Voice (voice)
Catherine Linebarger
Radio Voice (voice)
Cat Navarro Lee
Mosquita Leading Woman
Jimmy Shin
Mosquita Leading Man
Narisa Suzuki
Sprite Twins
Louis Yuen
Mosquita Supporting Man
Steven Sutherland
Party Guy
Hali Lula Hudson
Tina (uncredited)
Melanie Leanne Miller
Sandy (uncredited)
Michaela Myers
Cindi (uncredited)
Jean Louise O'Sullivan
Josie (uncredited)
David Robert Mitchell
Director / Writer
Adele Romanski
Producer
The Myth of the American Sleepover Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
I remember 15. It was a mess. Mitchell's movie serenely amplifies the mess.
Detroit News
Tom Long
The Myth of the American Sleepover is an indie movie-lover's dream, one of those rare instances where a lack of budget and experience is trumped by heartfelt vision, natural talent and amateur enthusiasm.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
With "The Myth of the American Sleepover," first-time writer-director David Robert Mitchell tells a coming-of-age tale with such freshness and such bemused insight it's as if it has never been told before.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A one-of-a-kind teen movie, which captures that distinctive moment in adolescent life when nostalgia, loss and anxiety begin to populate one's consciousness with ghosts.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
I can sympathize with the need to connect with teen audiences without having to resort to the usual antics, but the answer is not to swap the real world for a patently fake one.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
While there is some sense of the complex dynamics that propel all teen parties, the pacing drags in a way a summer night never should.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
David Robert Mitchell's auspicious debut feature owes a lot to "Dazed and Confused" and other coming-of-age flicks, but it's an engaging piece of filmmaking on its own, beautifully shot and acted.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
A coming-of-age movie that evokes the teenage experience through minor, incisive observation, then leaves without making anything so conspicuous as a statement.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
What Mr. Mitchell gets splendidly right in this quiet, observant film, is the unsteady mixture of sophistication and navet that is central to the modern American teenage way of being in the world.
Austin Chronicle
Kate Messer
It's sweet and sticky and frisky and true to the awkwardness of adolescence, but with a healthy dose of tenderness.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Mitchell has an ear for the tentativeness of adolescence, the way that everyone is trying on postures, attitudes, selves.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Slightly clumsy but hugely endearing.
Variety
Rob Nelson
Well-intentioned but derivative and only intermittently engaging, the suburban Michigan-set indie hits at least as many false notes as true ones.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A lovely, gentle and very true film set on a long night in a small Michigan city at the end of summer.
The Hollywood Reporter
Andrew Wallenstein
Sleepover is less a fully realized artistic expression than an able reworking of a well-worn genre.
Observer
Rex Reed
The young director, whose day job is editing commercials, has never made a narrative feature-length movie before and shows no aptitude for it here.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
Mitchell finds a balance that's just right in juggling all these emotions and presenting them believably in screen. His little movie is pretty much perfect in depicting youthful imperfection.
Village Voice
Karina Longworth
Sloma is always interesting to watch: She's even almost credible when tasked with delivering the film's thesis in the form of a lesson learned.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
Mitchell has pushed a familiar genre in deeper directions.
Slant Magazine
Joseph Jon Lanthier
The film likeably recognizes that all of the adolescent epiphanies worth rendering in film must be represented non-verbally.
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