American Graffiti

This film is largely about a group of teens from the 60's just hanging out on an average summer night.  They cruise around in their cars starting street races and fights and picking up girls.  There is no one story line, just a bunch of characters doing their own thing.  No clear objective or goal is in mind for these kids, other then Curt who is still debating on leaving for college.  The music is a huge aspect of the film.  From the rock and roll music coming from the car stereo to the jukebox in restaurants the music gives a complete realism to the scenes.  I personally am not too familiar with the time period, so at first I thought they actually had a destination through all that driving.  Further into the film I realized that just aimlessly cruising around with no destination was their idea of something to do letting the night and people they run into control the events.