The Story:
Two girls swap schools and experience some unexpected ups and downs in this coming-of-age comedy from Australia. Esther Blueburger (Danielle Catanzariti) is a 13-year-old Jewis girl 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 seventeen-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.
Esther and Sunni discover neither is happy at school, so they decide to switch places, with Esther pretending to be an exchange student at Sunni's public school. The switch goes over just fine at first, and Esther is welcomed warmly by her new classmates. She learns that it’s ok to be different and being true to yourself is more important than fitting in.
Starring:
Keisha Castle-Hughes, Toni Collette, Danielle Catanzariti,, Christian Byers, Essie Davis, Russell Dykstra
Directed By:
Cathy Randall
Release:
2008
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