The “Breakfast Club” has come to life in Nanette Burstein’s new film “American Teen,” which documents the senior year of four stereotypical high schoolers ” the jock, the loner, the artsy girl and the homecoming queen. The doc premiered last month at the Sundance Film Festival, and will be released theatrically by Paramount Vantage.

The film’s charm comes from the small town kids’ “lack of guile” and their deviation from the self-conscious and vapid reality television stars we’re used to seeing on shows like “The Hills.” Said Burstein about the film:

“It’s about being 17…I thought going into it that it was all going to be about the pressure of your peers. I realized that was an element of that, but you also had this identity crisis because of the pressure of your parents, and the future decisions you had to make, that you know nothing about.”

and get to know the cast here. You can also by visiting teenactivist.org to see how America’s youth are advocating, volunteering and mobilizing for social action.