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The reality of the ‘American Teen’ in Indiana

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[12.Aug.08] :. When Nanette Burstein was in high school—a prep school in Buffalo—she spent a year abroad, living with a family in Spain. She was a proper little preppy when she quit the States. She had...

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‘American Teen’ director: ‘Real life is stranger than fiction’

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[8.Aug.08] :. Nanette Burstein likes to immerse herself in a subject, shoot miles of footage, and tell a story with the edited footage. At 38, she was already a TV director and documentary filmmaker of some repute...

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American Teen

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Jul.08] :. In American Teen, Hannah is charismatic, bright, and entertainingly acerbic concerning her classmates' struggles with the high school's "total caste system."

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