#The myth of the American Sleepovers

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The Myth of the American Sleepover (David Robert Mitchell, 2010)

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Chapter 6

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Jacob drove them to a pizza place in Port Angeles. They walk in the restaurant and get seated in a booth. They order their drinks and a pepperoni pizza.

“So y/n how was your life back in Chicago” Jacob asked starting up a convo.

“I lived in a neighborhood just outside of the city. Even tho it would get loud I loved being able to walk around everywhere. My neighbors/closet friends, Diego and Amber, we would always walk to 711 or just around the city late at night. Once at a sleepover we got high and just spent hours roaming around the city. We got lost at some point but we ended up finding the best taco truck.” y/n explained.

“How ‘bout you? Tell me about La Push ” She said

“Well the rez is quiet unlike the city. Not much goes around just wolves here and there” he says with a small laugh

“Wait is there wolfs here??” she asked

“Um yea in a way” Jacob said with a nervous grin

“What do you mean?” Y/n asked

Jacob knew he wasn’t allowed to tell her, but something inside felt like he could trust her. He only knew y/n for not even 48 hours but he knew like she would be around forever .It wouldn’t be easy telling someone about humans turning into werewolves.

“Okay, the Quiluetes have some tribal stories where we are descents from Wolfs. We would shift to them when we would feel our enemies presence in our blood. Apparently our body temperature rises to unhumanly highs.” Jacob explained 

They never said he couldn’t tell tribal “stories”

“Wow. Do you know anybody who shifted? Who are your enemies?” She asked him eagerly

“Y/n these are just myths. My dad he’s a council member,they share these stories when we have meetings. No harm just fun little stories.” He said

“Oh, that would be cool tho. Would you want to ‘wolf out’” y/n asked Jacob.

“Um yea it would be nice, but a down side is when you do your clothes are ripped off and you have to always have a pair of clothes hidden somewhere. Also there’s a thing called imprinting- ” but before he could explain what it was the server comes with their food.

“Here’s your pizza, is there anything else I can get you?” He asked y/n. He had mischief in his eyes, pink creeping up on his cheeks and a smirk plastered.

“Um no thanks…” Y/n said giving him a confused yet disgusted look

“Well my name is Will, holler if you need anything.” He said with a wink and walked away.

“Okay I may be young but I know hes trying get in your pants.” Jake said

“Jake! Obviously but I don’t know that’s so embarrassing…” she said

“Oh wait maybe if you flirt back you can get is a free desert!!!” He told her

“Omg should I try it?”

“Yes their lava cakes are soo good you gotta try them!”

“Alright later but let’s dig in.”

Jacob was somewhat relived he didn’t have to finishing explaining what imprinting was to her. It’s a beautiful thing but explaining it to a girl would feel a little awkward.

An hour passed and they successfully walked out with a free desert but unfortunately with a phone number. Y/n threw it in her cup holder and started her car.

“Alright it 4:12, wanna do something els?” Y/n asked Jacob

“Let’s go this bookstore. I’ll give you the directions.” Jacob said

“Okay let’s go, I’ve been meaning to visit the library but too lazy”

Jacob had a plan. He can’t tell her the truth but like they say the truth will always come out.

They soon arrived to the book store. They walked in and started browsing.

“I really wanna get looking for Alaska and Peace like a river” she said while she looks through the fiction section

Jacob goes on his own and looks through the Native American history’s section. He picks up a book about the Quileute history and picks up a random book to making sure his plan works out. After y/n finds her books they both check and leave.

Y/n dropped off Jacob home and she then stopped by the store on her way home. She picked up a few of her favorite snacks for tonights movie marathon. Once she got home she put her new books away did her nightly routine. She got into some comfortable pjs and picked a movie out her family’s DVD collection to finish off the day.

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The Myth of the American Sleepover (2010), dir. David Robert Mitchell

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The Myth of the American Sleepover (David Robert Mitchell, 2010).

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Claire Sloma and Annette DeNoyer in "The Myth of the American Sleepover" (2010)

Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.

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It follows - David Robert Mitchell (2014)

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The Myth of the American Sleepover (2010)

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The Myth of the American Sleepover David Robert Mitchell. 2010

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THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN SLEEPOVER- 2010 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Drink every time you see a sleeping bag.

This enjoyable indie drama follows a group of teenagers on there last weekend before school starts back. They go back and forth between sleepovers and slumber partys, playing games and looking for love.

Directorial debut of David Robert Mitchell who went on to direct It Follows.

Was filmed on a budget of $30,000.

Its a good hangout movie, its very reserved, and avoids anything crazy happening which i liked. The characters spend theyre time drinking, trying ouija boards and exploring.

Lots of characters coming to grips with moving in to the next stage of there lives.

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The Myth of the American Sleepover (David Robert Mitchell, 2010)

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The Myth Of The American Sleepover

Director David Robert Mitchell Stars Claire Soma, Marlon Morton, Amanda Bauer, Brett Jacobsen USA 2010 Language English 1hr 36mins Colour

Elegantly filmed teen end-of-summer movie

This is one of those films that’s hard to discuss without talking about another movie. Four years after he had made The Myth Of The American Sleepover, David Robert Mitchell directed It Follows, which I think has a strong claim to being one of the key movies of the 2010s. I was checking something about it as I wrote this, and noticed it’s on at a cinema in London this week, seven years after its release. The Myth Of The American Sleepover, meanwhile, is one those debuts that gets probably mostly gets watched because people are curious about what came before the hit.

Mitchell’s first two films share a distinctive visual style, a setting (the Detroit suburbs and abandoned parts of the city), the age, look and general vibe of the characters, an unresolvable is-this-set-now? question (the complete absence of mobile phones in The Myth Of The American Sleepover, for instance, is noticeable). The difference is that It Follows is a horror movie and TMOTS is a one-night-and-its-aftermath coming-of-age story explicitly in the tradition of American Graffiti and Dazed And Confused. And yet, partly because of all it has in common with It Follows, there are moments when I was sure something sinister was about to happen…

It takes place at the end of summer vacation (like American Graffiti), in this case before the start of the high school year for most characters and the college one for a few others. We meet a lot of kids – I’ll briefly introduce the ones we spend more time with. There’s Maggie (Claire Sloma), who is worried she hasn’t done enough that’s memorable over the summer. And Rob (Marlon Morton), who makes out like he’s got game with girls but really doesn’t, and who is obsessed with a girl he sort-of-flirted with in the supermarket when they were helping their moms shop. Claudia (Amanda Bauer) is the new girl in school who already has a boyfriend with a car. Finally, Scott (Brett Jacobsen) feels his break-up is so bad he’s not going to bother to go back to college.

Most of these kids are young enough for big slumber parties to still be a thing. At what point sleepover stop being appropriate, what’s lost when that happens and why the term tends to be used for girls’ gatherings and not the essentially identical events for boys are all things discussed in the movie – these are (like the characters in Dazed And Confused) reflexive kids, very aware that this is a rite of passage, that things are being lost as well as gained as they reach the time of sex, drink and drugs.

It’s an inexperienced cast, many of whom only appeared in this film, but it doesn’t amateurish or non-professional. (And you certainly wouldn’t think of it as a film that only cost $50,000.) On the contrary, because Mitchell is a film-maker whose uses a lot of very clearly composed shots, this doesn’t have that the feel of a debut, of a director figuring out things as he goes along. Then again, he was 35 when he made this, so hardly a kid himself.

I think the juxtaposition of the kids’ bubbling emotions – and the various quests (many pointless) that the characters go on – with the calm and controlled way that it is shot works brilliantly. At the very least, it’s a beautiful film – whether the camera is gazing down suburban sidewalks or we’re in the dark corridors of a labyrinthine abandoned building, even if you aren’t caught up in the adolescent longings and feuds. (I have noticed, though, that Mitchell’s films tend of get fairly low audience ratings at IMBD, Rotten Tomatoes etc – I suspect his art-house approach to popular genres means that a lot of people start watching his movies hoping for something less subtle and well, slow, than what they end up getting.)

As with a lot of teen comedies, you could argue that a dickish male character gets an unmerited good outcome. I think that’s true, although maybe because when I saw this I had also just watched Aaron Katz’s kind-of-similar debut Dance Party USA – which has a truly vile male lead it feels we are meant to be empathise with – it doesn’t seem that bad.

That’s balanced, at least, by Maggie and Claudia, who I think are more interesting characters, and who we spend plenty of time here – I think in the end, this is Maggie’s movie. She’s full of believable contradictions, including having hobby I think would be considered dorky by her peers that actually gives her a super-cool moment.

Is The Myth Of The American Sleepover on the same level as It Follows? No. Is it a terrific movie in its own right? I’m saying yes.

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The Myth of the American Sleepover, 2010