Synopsis: Set against the backdrop of mile roads, neighborhood blocks, abandoned factories and lakes which make up Metro-Detroit, this story follows four young people as they search for love and adventure on the last night of summer. Maggie, Rob, Claudia and Scott cross paths as they explore the suburban wonderland chasing first kisses, elusive crushes, popularity and parties. They are looking for the iconic teenage experience, but instead they discover the quiet moments that will later become the part of their youth that they look back on with nostalgia.
Brooklyn's Northside Festival, a four-day extravaganza of "music, film, food, ideas and art" will open its film event with a selection of shorts from New York filmmakers along with the indieWIRE-programmed New York premiere of David Robert Mitchell's coming-of-age drama, "The Myth of the American Sl...
Read More »North American and select international rights to David Robert Mitchell's award-winning drama, "The Myth of the American Sleepover" have been picked up by IFC Films.
Read More »When delineating the quality of teen dramas, there's no handier reference than John Hughes. In the case of David Robert Mitchell's enjoyably peculiar ensemble piece, "The Myth of the American Sleepover," the Hughes comparison requires more complex modifiers. Entertainment Weekly's Grady Smith wrote ...
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