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Hey, hey it's Esther Blueburger - Keisha Castle-Hughes, Danielle Catanzariti, Cathy Randall

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Movie propaganda

Sometimes to fit in you need to stand out.

Hey, hey it's Esther Blueburger is a smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life's unending quest to fit in, and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out - introduces a feisty outsider hero unlike any other seen on screen. Esther Blueburger's (Danielle Catanzariti) quest begins when she escapes from her Bat Mitzvah party and is befriended by Sunni (Keisha Castle-Hughes), the effortlessly cool girl who is everything Esther thinks she wants to be. With the help of Sunni, Esther goes AWOL from her ordinary life and leaves behind her malfunctioning Jewish family (Essie Davies, Russell Dykstra, Christian Byers) to hang out with Sunni's far breezier and super-hip single mum Mary (Toni Collette) and attend Sunni's forbidden public school as a Swedish exchange student.

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film Australian black comedy coming-of-age teen high school rebel Jewish Emo bar-mitzvah girl identity

Persons of interest

Toni Collette .... Mary
Keisha Castle-Hughes .... Sunni
Christian Byers .... Jacob Blueburger
Essie Davis .... Grace Blueburger
Edwin Hodgeman .... Rabbi
Jonny Pasvolsky .... Mr Hooper
Russell Dykstra .... Osmond Blueburger
Danielle Catanzariti .... Esther Blueburger
Caitlin McDougall .... Miss Koolkats
Paul Blackwell .... Mr Duke
Deidre Rubenstein .... Mrs Fleisher
Patrick Frost .... Sunni's Grandfather
Leticia Monaghan .... Cynthia
Talia Monaghan .... Missy
Lucy Carey .... Sienna
Bridget Walters .... Mrs Rosen
Nikita Adams .... Piper
Laura Kettle .... Demi
Elise Champion .... Helen
Cassandra Jinman .... The Slug
Esme Proudman .... Mrs Silverman
Tisha Adey .... Prudence
Yen Yen Stender .... Lissy
Daniela Ganter .... Alex
Lyn Pike .... Sunii's Grandmother
Cathy Randall .... Screenwriter
Cathy Randall .... Director

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Theatrical report

Well, it's not Looking for Alibrandi but it's not far off. I'm neither Jewish nor a pubescent girl (let alone a wealthy one or a private schoolgirl) so it's hard for me to judge the film's veracity in that regard yet most of it has a quirky voice that seems right. It's like riding down a hill on your push-bike and getting smacked between the eyes by a bee: painful but not damaging.

The Australian, comedy, coming-of-age movie Hey, hey it's Esther Blueburger is directed by Cathy Randall and stars Keisha Castle-Hughes, Toni Collette, Danielle Catanzariti.