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" When our friends at Clean &amp;amp;amp; Clear invited Seventeen to the red carpet premiere of The American Mall, an MTV flick by the executive producers of High School Musical, we couldn&amp;#039;t resist checking it out. Could this movie have a couple as cute as Zanessa, a mean girl as love-/hate-able as Sharpay, a song as catchy as &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re All in This Together&amp;quot;? Now we know: Yes, yes, yes! The American Mall is a teen love story set at the local mall and centered on Ally (Nina Dobrev, Degrassi: The Next Generation), who works at her mom&amp;#039;s struggling music shop, and Joey (Rob Mayes), one of the cute janitors who&amp;#039;s in a band. Ally dreams of a music career too, even though her mom wants her to go to business school. She and Joey become an item, until the mall owner&amp;#039;s spoiled daughter, Madison (Autumn Reeser, The O.C.), tries to break them apart by seducing Joey with promises of fame for his band. Even though she plays the mean girl, Autumn wins us over in the end! Best part is, in real life, she&amp;#039;s nothing like Madison. On the red carpet, she wore a romantic cream-colored dress with a tiered lace skirt by Alice + Olivia and pink Valentino heels with rosettes, a very different look from Madison&amp;#039;s rigid pencil skirts and poofy-sleeve blouses. She told Seventeen that she used to work at Wet Seal during the Christmas rush and as a waitress, so she doesn&amp;#039;t take her success for granted! We also loved Nina&amp;#039;s performance as Ally \u2014 check out the special message she has below, just for you! Her character is as sweet as Vanessa Hudgens&amp;#039;s Gabriella, but when Joey betrays her, she unleashes her angry side in a bold, don&amp;#039;t-mess-with-me dance number, &amp;quot;Survivor.&amp;quot; After the premiere, we chilled with the stars at the Cabana Club in Hollywood, where David Baum and Wade Allain Marcus, who play Joey&amp;#039;s funny janitor friends, dropped by our table. Keep these real-life New York buddies on your radar \u2014 they&amp;#039;re releasing an EP together and a bonus song on The American Mall DVD.   The coolest thing about The American Mall is that it&amp;#039;s not a 90-minute fluff fest. It&amp;#039;s got a real message about pursuing your dreams, even if that means having an unglamorous job at the mall. Seventeen editors totally relate. We started our dream jobs in magazines with unpaid internships, and there was no easier place to earn (and spend!) cash than at the mall.  Where do you guys work at the mall? Do you have a mall crush like Ally and Joey have on each other? Is it the preppy guy at Hollister, the techie at the Apple store, the sporty guy at Footlocker? Sound off below! And hey, now that you have the inside scoop, why not send your friends a Facebook invite to your own premiere party for The American Mall? It airs tonight, Monday, August 11, at 9 p.m. EST exclusively on MTV. (17 Tip: Serve hot dogs \u2014 after you see the movie, you&amp;#039;ll understand why!)      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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