Young Americans (TV Series)

1999 · Series · 43 min. · United States

Drama Teens

This series portrays life at Rawley Summer Academy, an elite school in Connecticut where boys with a bright Ivy League future spend the summer industriously in classes and rowing training on the lake. It's mainly told from the viewpoint of Will Krudski, a gifted, genuinely inquisitive student and future writer, who feels guilty having cheated at the entry exams. His roommate, Scout Calhoun, is a school legacy who makes an effort to become friendly with some underprivileged local kids and falls in love with the daughter of a garage owner who turns out to be family. Most of his classmates are golden spoon boys, but still have their problems, among each-other, at home and sometimes with the locals. Actually Jacqueline 'Jake' Pratt is a girl pretending to be a boy as the only way to get in, causing great confusion for Hamilton, the school dean's son, who begins to fall for her.

Direction Steve Antin · James Whitmore Jr. · Mel Damski · Perry Lang · Robert M. Williams Jr.

Cast Kate Bosworth · Mark Famiglietti · Katherine Moennig · Rodney Scott · Ian Somerhalder · Ed Quinn · Benjamin Gravitt · Rylie J. Neale · Matt Czuchry · Deborah Hazlett · Charlie Hunnam · Jason Sweet · Gabrielle Christian · Kathleen Bridget Kelly · Michelle Monaghan · Tracy Howe · Cyndi Johnson