HEY HEY IT'S ESTHER BLUEBURGER
114 min - Family Drama Comedy
DIRECTOR: Cathy Randall
CAST:
Toni Collete (LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, IN HER SHOES, THE SIXTH SENSE), Keisha Castle Hughes (WHALE RIDER), Danielle Catanzariti
HEY HEY IT”S ESTHER BLUEBURGER - 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 CANTANZARITI) 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 nuclear family to hang out with Sunni’s far breezier and super-hip single mom Mary (TONI COLLETTE) and attend Sunni’s forbidden public school as a Swedish exchange student. As seen from box office results, audiences are responding to the precocious loner: a quirky, intelligent, independent, non-conformist girl who dances to her own tune and comes from a somewhat dysfunctional but loving family!