Do you recall your days of youth when the most important thing in the world was your popularity, your crush on that unknowing boy or girl that you imagined you would be with forever, your first kiss, summer fun, and which parties you got invited to. THE MYTH OF AN AMERICAN SLEEPOVER, will have you recalling your youthful memories of your teenage summers.
Some of my favorite memories as a young girl are of the sleepovers I had with my girlfriends, staying up and talking all night, playing games such as "light as a feather", watching movies, eating popcorn and ice cream. Summers however added another additional element to these regular sleepovers. For many it was the time to have some sort of experience or event to mark the time. This film looks at that need for youth to have experiences, and to learn about what it is that they really want in life. It helps them to define a clearer concise picture of their goals whether it is in love, or in their future pursuits. It is a time to experiment and grow, and this film showcases the search, innocent experimentation, and self realizations that not everything has to happen or will happen immediately.
THE MYTH OF AN AMERICAN SLEEPOVER, is an innocent look at several young teens and the allure of summer romance before the school year starts. The scenarios although all different in their search are similar in the their desire to love and be loved. As youth we all long for these experiences, often not knowing why we are doing what it is we do to get it. We do however learn about ourselves through these events helping us to become the people we are today.
For a light and youthful taste of summer at 4:45pm on Sunday October 3rd at the Plaza
