Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008)

1h 43m
Running Time

March 20, 2008
Release Date

Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008)

1h 43m
Running Time

March 20, 2008
Release Date

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Australian Film CommissionSouth Australian Film Corporation120dB FilmsAustralian Film Finance Corporation

Plot.

This film 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 quest begins when she escapes from her Bat Mitzvah party and is befriended by Sunni.., the effortlessly cool girl who is everything Esther thinks she wants to be. With the help of Sunni, Esther goes away from her ordinary life and leaves behind her malfunctioning Jewish family to hang out with Sunni's far breezier and super-hip single mom Mary and attend Sunni's forbidden public school as a Swedish exchange student.

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This Movie Is About.

Cast & Crew.

Danielle Catanzariti

Danielle Catanzariti

Esther Blueburger

Toni Collette

Toni Collette

Mary / Executive Producer

Cassandra Jinman

Cassandra Jinman

The Slug

Talia Monaghan

Talia Monaghan

Ribbon 1

Essie Davis

Essie Davis

Grace Blueburger

Yen Yen Stender

Yen Yen Stender

Ribbon 2

Jonny Pasvolsky

Jonny Pasvolsky

Mr. Hooper

Laura Kettle

Laura Kettle

Ribbon 3

Anton Rosenberg

Anton Rosenberg

Executive Producer

Kristin Andersons

Kristin Andersons

Associate Producer

Jessica Hatherall

Jessica Hatherall

Associate Producer

Rebecca Wong

Rebecca Wong

Associate Producer

Ernie Clarke

Ernie Clarke

Additional Photography

Jen Lamphee

Jen Lamphee

Hair Designer / Makeup Designer

Melissa Dunstone

Melissa Dunstone

Location Manager

Leanne Ringelstein

Leanne Ringelstein

Choreographer

Yolanda Schwartzer

Yolanda Schwartzer

Stunt Double

Details.

Release Date
March 20, 2008

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 43m

Budget
$6,000,000

Genres

Wiki.

Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger is a 2008 Australian independent teen film written and directed by Cathy Randall. It stars Danielle Catanzariti, Keisha Castle-Hughes and Toni Collette. The film follows Jewish 13-year-old Esther (Catanzariti), an outcast at her posh school, where she has no friends. That changes when she meets nonconformist Sunni (Castle-Hughes) from the local public school.

With Esther's character based loosely on her own adolescence, Randall was inspired to write the film's script by what she saw as a lack of role models for teenage girls. In 2002, the script earned her a fellowship to the Los Angeles Film School's Feature Development Programme, where she developed the project, and it was later picked up by Tama Films. Randall returned to Australia for casting, and Catanzariti was eventually chosen in the lead role after she attended an audition for minor roles and extras. Production spanned from October to December 2006, with filming taking place in Adelaide, South Australia and Sydney, New South Wales.

The film premiered on 9 February 2008 at the Berlin International Film Festival and was released in Australia on 20 March 2008. It failed to earn back its A$6 million budget with a total domestic gross of approximately $800,000. The film attracted mixed reviews; some critics praised the originality and the acting, though others found Randall's direction dull and the script poorly written. Catanzariti won the Australian Film Institute's Young Actor Award for her performance, and the film received a further three AFI nominations and a nomination for a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award.

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