14A - Coarse Language, Sexual Content & Substance Abuse.
Awarded Best Ensemble Cast at SXSW and making its world premiere at Cannes as part of the International Critics Week section (the first American film to make the cut in five years), first-time writer/director David Robert Mitchell’s THE MYTH OF AN AMERICAN SLEEPOVER is a smartly nostalgic coming of age drama set in Detroit, Michigan.
The story follows three young high school teens and a college junior during the end of summer holidays and on the eve of several sleepovers that are divided between girls and boys. To each of them, it feels like their last night to explore summer crushes, adventure and unresolved curiosities. The stories of the main characters cross paths as they each go off on their own seeking love, parties and acceptance, creating jealously and, inevitably, teen drama. The result is a reminder of the way it felt when the last day of summer marked not just the beginning of a new school year, but the beginning of new possibilities.
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Countries
United States- Awards
- Jury Award SXSW Film Festival 2010
- Festivals
- Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2010, Official Selection Cannes Film Festival - Critic's Week 2010
- Director
- David Robert Mitchell
- Executive Producer
- Michael Ferris Gibson
- Producer
- Justin Barber Adele Romanski Cherie Saulter
- Screenwriter
- David Robert Mitchell
- Cinematographer
- James Laxton
- Editor
- Julio Perez IV
- Production Design
- Jeanine Nicholas
- Music
- Kyle Newmaster
- Cast
- Claire Sloma, Nikita Ramsey, Jade Ramsey, Amy Seimetz, Brett Jacobsen, Amanda Bauer