In times when Paris Hilton is queen and thousands of people want to be her BBF, it seems like kids nowadays may not receive the right kind of message from their idols. The media portrays a mesmerizing world on the other side of the screen, a picture that is often deceiving and exaggerated. It’s all about breaking boundaries, all about being hip and fabulous, it’s all parties and sex, but no real emotion.

From time to time, a movie comes out and shatters our superficial world with a story about teenage life, a bit romanticized, but still with credible characters, a pretty compelling plot and that “je ne sais quoi” that kind of makes you either nostalgic about your own youth, if you’re slightly older, either more optimistic and teenage-angst-free, if you find yourself in that special time in your life when the world is still divided between cool and geeky.

“Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” is that kind of movie. One that doesn’t hide all those aspects of the teenage life, the ones that parents fear the most, like drinking, clubbing and having sex, but one that puts them under a more natural and sweet light.

The thing about these kids’ journey through “The City That Never Sleeps” is that it portrays exactly how kids these days spend their nights, while their completely unaware parents quietly sleep in their suburban beds. Truth is, teenagers do drink, way before they reach 21, they do engage in spontaneous, possibly disease-spreading kissing with strangers and they do drive around dark streets in search of that secret underground club. But they also fall in love, they also take it upon themselves to be designated drivers, they are still very self-conscious about their bodies and completely frightened by the mad mad world that opens up in front of them.

Nick and Norah fall in each other’s arms by accident in one of those wild and quite long nights that you later try to remember, but somehow, so many things have happened, it’s all a bit of a blur. They kiss before they even know their names, but fall in love at the end of the bumpy ride.

These two share a love for the same music and are equally witty, funny, insecure, innocent and lovable, which is why they find themselves crossing back and forth the fine line between hip and outsider. They get thrown into a melting pot of characters, in a quest for a secret concert, a series of vehicle adventures, bumping into New York’s finest weirdos and taking care of a seriously drunk but funny friend, Caroline, portrayed by Ari Graynor.

Michael Cera and Kat Dennings are most credible playing Nick and Norah, as they look delightfully honest and funny in both real life and on screen, two simple teenagers living their first wild nights and creating memories that, little do they know, will last forever.