Puberty Blues
1981 · Movie · 87 min. · Australia
The mating rituals of two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney in the late 70s. Meet Sue, a teenage Australian girl whose life mainly consists of doing what everyone else does - watch the surfing boys and have sex with the same surfing boys. The girls have to follow lots of strange customs, e.g. do not eat or go to the bathroom when a boy is around. Ugly girls have two choices - being bitches and hate boys, or being generally cheap and looked down upon by everyone. The afternoons are spent on the beaches, in the backseats of car or at home-alone-parties where sex and alcohol are the main ingredients. Parents and teachers are trying to straighten the kids out, but that is not easy.
Direction Bruce Beresford
Cast Nell Schofield · Jad Capelja · Geoff Rhoe · Tony Hughes · Sandy Paul · Leander Brett · Jay Hackett · Ned Lander · Joanne Olsen · Julie Medana · Michael Shearman · Dean Dunstone · Tina Robinson Hansen · Nerida Clark · Kirrily Nolan · Alan Cassell · Rowena Wallace · Charles Tingwell
Soundtrack Tim Finn · Les Gock
Screenplay Margaret Kelly · Kathy Lette · Gabrielle Carey
Cinematography Donald McAlpine
Original title Puberty Blues
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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