I don’t normally root against indie movies, especially ones released by a studio specialty division that’s being downsized, but I’m sort of glad that Paramount Vantage’s high-pressure campaign — including this poster modeled on the one for “The Breakfast Club” — for the glossy documentary “American Teen” yielded a per-screen average of only $8,565 from five theaters. I gave it two stars

and, like some other reviewers, questioned whether director Nanette Burstein was pulling the strings behind her subjects, five high school students — even though they seemed to be quite willing to be exploited, even participating in the marketing campaign. Audiences preferred “Man on Wire,” a documentary about WTC high-wire ace Philippe Petit, which I awarded 3.5 stars — it averaged a whopping $24,000 in its debut in two Manhattan venues. The 10K per venue average for “Brideshead Revisited,” on 33 screens, is being called “solid” by Variety, but I’d say it’s a disappointment for such a well-known property. Among the weekend’s under-performers in limited release was “Boy A,” which averaged $5,703 at Film Forum and a theater in L.A. Even before this opened, distributor/blogger Harvey Weinsteinblamed the press for not helping to promote this been-there, done-that flick about an ex-con, which I gave two stars. But that was a hit compared to “Baghead,” the first mumbcore flick distributed by a mainstream company (Sony Pictures Classics), which averaged only $4,230 on a pair of screens — possibly more than it cost to make this micro-budgeted snoozer.