Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger

Sometimes to fit in you need to stand out
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  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 13, 2010
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Monterey Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 740
Rating: 2.5/5 -- Appearances by Toni Collette and Whale Rider's Keisha Castle-Hughes should draw a few curious parents to what is, most of the time, a quirky and quite enjoyable coming of age saga.
Boxoffice Magazine
Apr 23, 2010
Rating: 2/4 -- The sometimes strained efforts at quirky humour and the more melodramatic moments in the later scenes can feel like they belong in different movies altogether. Full Review
Toronto Star
Jul 1, 2010
Rating: 2/4 -- Hey, hey, we get it already. Full Review
Globe and Mail
Jul 2, 2010
The filmmaker's overreliance on oddball characterizations and easy-bake kookiness often derails her seemingly loftier intentions. Full Review
L.A. Weekly
Jun 10, 2010
The film starts slowly, but gets an energy burst when Keisha Castle-Hughes' enigmatic spiky-haired Sunni with a single earring and provocative gaze appears onscreen. Full Review
Urban Cinefile
Mar 19, 2008
5 stars out of 5 -- [A] quirky coming-of-age comedy....Newcomer Danielle Catanzariti is a delight, moving from dutiful daughter to class-cutting rebel...
Los Angeles Times
Jun 11, 2010
Rating: 3.5/5 -- If you're sick of Hollywood teen movies that can't see past the end of their next tube of lip gloss, this Aussie alternative is well worth checking out. Full Review
iofilm.co.uk
Jul 2, 2009

Product Description:

Two girls swap schools and experience some unexpected ups and downs in this coming-of-age comedy from Australia. Thirteen-year-old Esther Blueburger (Danielle Catanzariti) is a geeky misfit attending an upscale private school for girls, where she blends with the rest of the students like oil and water. Esther's parents, Grace (Essie Davis) and Osmond (Russell Dykstra), have little concern for or understanding of her problems, and they're far more interested in her twin brother, Jacob (Christian Byers). After being humiliated at her bat mitzvah, Esther wanders off and meets Sunni (Keisha Castle-Hughes), a 17-year-old high school student with a spunky attitude and little concern about what others think of her, an outlook encouraged by her mother, Mary (Toni Collette), who makes a living as an exotic dancer. When Sunni discovers how unhappy Esther is at her school, she hatches a plan for Esther to attend her public school by pretending to be a Swedish exchange student. This goes over just fine at first, and Esther is welcomed warmly by her new classmates, but she discovers hanging out with an older crowd forces her to face some important new decisions, and she attracts the attentions of a boy who wants a more mature relationship than Esther can handle. HEY, HEY, IT'S ESTHER BLUEBURGER was the first feature film from writer and director Cathy Randall.

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