Seventeen is a 1983 American documentary film directed by Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines.
Vincent Canby of The New York Times called Seventeen, "one of the best and most scarifying reports on American life to be seen on a theater screen.
"[2] Michael Sragow, writing in The New Yorker, said: "Working with lightweight camera rigs they developed themselves, Jeff Kreines and Joel DeMott (who, despite the name, is female) approach the subjects of their documentary – working-class teenagers in Muncie, Indiana – man-to-man and woman-to-woman.
As searing as it is rambunctious, this film brings out all the middle-class prejudices against the working class that American movies rarely confront.
"[6] Seventeen was awarded the Grand Jury Prize Documentary at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival, where the jurors were Barbara Kopple, D. A. Pennebaker, and Frederick Wiseman.