HEY HEY IT'S ESTHER BLUEBURGER - sometimes to fit in you have to stand out.

A hilarious coming of age comedy

Hey, Hey It’s Esther Blueburger is a hilarious coming of age comedy that explores what it’s really like to be an outsider in your own world. Esther (newcomer Danielle Catanzariti) is not like other girls; she befriends a duck, talks to God through the toilet and break-dances at her bat-mitzvah. Her school is a daily torment of mind-numbing conformity and bell-ringing rituals. Home is a pressure cooker driven by her mother Grace’s (Essie Davis) demand for perfection. But life changes when Esther meets uber hip Sunni, (Keisha Castle- Hughes) and her off beat single mother Mary (Toni Collette) and slips out of her oppressive all-girls private school and into a public one under the guise of a foreign exchange student. She learns that it’s ok to be different and that being true to yourself is more important than fitting in.

Tags

• independent
• monterey media
• hey hey it's esther blueburger
• Keisha Castle-Hughes
• Danielle Catanzariti
• Essie Davis
• Toni Collette
• Cathy Randall
• Heather Ogilvie
• whalerider
• hilarious coming of age comedy
• tween comedy
• perils of adolescence
• thirteen year old odd ball
• desire to be cool
• Bat Mitzvah
• malfunctioning Jewish family
• masquerade of a life
• the grey zone between childhood and adulthood
• being oneself
• a sharp modern comedy
• Austrailan film
• Jewish film