That’s not an ironic title. Teenage examines nothing less than the invention of teenage identity, which, it turns…

Cast
Jena Malone (American Girl)Ben Whishaw (British Boy)Julia Hummer (German Girl)Jessie T. Usher (American Boy)Leah Hennessey (Brenda Dean Paul)Ivy Blackshire (Melita Machmann)Daniela Leder (Melita Machmann)Ben Rosenfield (Tommie Scheel)Malik Peters (Warren Wall)Richie Coterelle (Bright Young Thing)Julia Cumming (Bright Young Thing)Taylor Edward Freeman (Bright Young Thing)Samuel Hecht (Bright Young Thing)Casper Jorgensen (Bright Young Thing)Claire Lucido (Bright Young Thing)Alden Ehrenreich (1940s Teenager)Syrie Moskowitz (Bright Young Thing)Alexander Sharp (Bright Young Thing)
Director
Matt Wolf
Synopsis
Teenagers did not always exist. In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th Century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of youth.