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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.
Government security censorship classification
M (Moderate coarse language, sexual references)
Surveillance time
103 minutes (1:43 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 20 March 2008
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