TestCase Client.login() fails

I'm trying to write a unit test that will verify that the login form authenticates a user. Whenever I run 'manage.py test' the runner fails with this message:

AssertionError: False is not True

tests.py

from django.test import TestCase

from django.test.client import Client

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class TestAccountLogin(TestCase):

    def setUp(self):

        self.client = Client()

    def test_login(self):

        user = User.objects.create_user('test', 'test@test.com', 't3stp@s$')

        response = self.client.login(username=user.username, password=user.password)

        self.assertTrue(response)

After creating the user, I can verify that user.is_active is in fact True, but unfortunately response returns False. Both 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware' and 'django.contrib.auth' are declared in settings.py.

Any thoughts?

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