SEVENTEEN

(1983) Directors: Joel DeMott, Jeff Kreines

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SUMMARY:

"...a small group of white and black teen-agers, the children of working-class parents, and their lives in school, at home, boozing, smoking pot, getting fatally smashed up in auto accidents and, at one point, preparing for a neighborhood race war. At the center of the film is Lynn, the pretty, tough-talking high school student whose pleasure principle is measured by the men in her life..."

VIDEO: SCENE

REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, CREDITS:

• New York Times review
• Seventeen reasons why seventeen might be the greatest movie about teenagers ever made
• San Francisco Bay Guardian review

NOTES:

• "...without a doubt one of the greatest movies, perhaps the greatest, about teenage life (not to mention American life) ever made" San Fransisco Film Society
• Co-directed by Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines whose previous film was 'Demon Lover Diary'.
• Both DeMott and Kreines studied under Richard Leacock at MIT. Perhaps the best-known of the filmmakers to come out of the MIT program was Ross McElwee, who directed 'Sherman’s March'.