Though "American Teen" is a documentary, the stars are not unlike the cinematic schoolkids of yesteryear. Which ones do they most identify with?

MEGAN KRIZMANICH: THE POPULAR GIRL

Identifies with: "Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) in "Mean Girls"

"Senior year, I would say I was very immature," she says. "I definitely had a big head and liked to be in charge of the situation." She says she is sorry for the way she treated some people, but she is proud of her independent streak. "I did what I wanted to do, and didn't let other people tell me how they wanted me to do things. I was very involved, very organized, very school-oriented.

COLIN CLEMENS: THE JOCK

Identifies with: Andrew Clark (Emilio Estevez) in "The Breakfast Club"

Clemens was the star of the basketball team in a small town that took its local sports seriously. Though he enjoyed playing, it was mainly his ticket to a scholarship. Failure on the court had wide-ranging repercussions.

"I never really thought of myself as, like, other kids watching me," he says. "I never noticed it until Hannah (Bailey) so kindly said I was second to Jesus at Warsaw. I never thought of it that way."

Estevez in "The Breakfast Club," he says, is another reluctant jock who is pressured into sports and a status he didn't want. "My dad kind of pushed me into being a basketball player," Clemens says.

MITCH REINHOLT: THE HEARTTHROB

Identifies with: Zach Siler (Freddie Prinze Jr.) in "She's All That"

Good-looking, athletic and smart, Reinholt was the kind of kid who easily floated back and forth between social circles.

"I was busy with sports. School was always a priority," he said. "But my friends got to me a little bit, and the confusion, high school dating took its toll, and I didn't handle things correctly."

The 1999 romantic comedy was about a popular guy who dates a nerdy wallflower to win a bet. "He dates someone outside his social circle, with a slightly different motive, but we both kind of messed up. Overall, he was a nice, cool person who just made a mistake."

JAKE TUSING: THE GEEK

Identifies with: Mikey (Sean Astin) in "The Goonies"

"Back in high school, I definitely saw myself as the loser," he says. "I never had a lot of friends, could never get a date. I had no self-confidence. I stayed home most of the time. I feel like I'm over that now, like I can talk to people now and not worry what they think of me."

Astin's Mikey, "The Goonies" character, is "the only (character) who remotely reminds me of myself," Tusing said. In the 1985 comedy-adventure about kids searching for lost treasure, "he's always trying to get his friends together to do one last hurrah, this one dream that he's got. And me, I was always trying to go out and find a girl."

HANNAH BAILEY: THE ARTSY CHICK

Identifies with: Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) in "Back to the Future"

"I never, ever stereotyped myself," she says. "But I did stereotype others. You're so complex to yourself, but you see everyone else you don't know as one-dimensional. I thought I was really weird, and I didn't think anyone liked me much. I knew I liked art, but I never thought I was artsy. I never thought of myself as an outcast, but I was really self-absorbed in high school."

Fox's Marty McFly, she says, was cool in his own way but a reject to others. "I even dressed like him," she says, noting her puffy vest jacket. "He was so damn cool, skipping class, being late. For me, it's about imagination rather than real life. I don't have a Doc, but I have a crazy old grandma."