Flirting (1990)
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 1
A terrific follow-up to The Year My Voice Broke, Flirting is a teen movie worth watching, thanks to emotionally engaging performances and an endearing script.
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1
A terrific follow-up to The Year My Voice Broke, Flirting is a teen movie worth watching, thanks to emotionally engaging performances and an endearing script.
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Australian filmmaker John Duigan followed up his captivating The Year My Voice Broke with Flirting. Noah Taylor repeats his "Danny" characterization from the earlier film, while Thandie Newton plays a Ugandan exchange student who attends an Australian girls boarding school. Billeted at a nearby boy's school, Danny finds himself falling in love with Newton, though he is frequently at a loss as to how to express himself. Flirting is the second in a proposed trilogy of John Duigan-directed films
Cast
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Noah Taylor
Danny Embling -
Thandie Newton
Thandiwe Adjewa -
Nicole Kidman
Nicola Radcliffe -
Bartholomew Rose
"Gilby" Fryer -
Felix Nobis
Jock Blair -
Kiri Paramore
"Slag" Green -
Jeff Truman
Mr. Morris Cutts -
Marshall Napier
Mr. Rupert Elliott -
Craig Black
"Pup" Pierdon -
Maggie Blinco
Miss Guinevere MacReady -
John Dicks
Reverend Consti Nichols... -
Judi Farr
Sheila Embling -
Jacqui Fifer
Stacey Burt -
Kurt Frey
Jean-Paul Sartre -
Marc Gray
Christopher Laidlaw -
Jane Harders
Miss Sylvia Anderson -
Leslie Hill
Greg Gilmore -
Gillian Hyde
Dr. Alison Pierce -
Harry Lawrence
Motel Manager -
Danielle Lyttleton
Jean Thomas -
Joshua Marshall
"Cheddar" Fedderson -
Gregg Palmer
Colin Proudfoot -
Freddie Paris
Solomon Adjewa -
Josh Picker
'Backa' Bourke -
Fiona Press
Mrs. Archer -
Francesca Raft
Fiona Spry -
Malcolm Robertson
Bruce Embling -
Lisa Spinadel
Barbara Howe -
Femi Taylor
Letitia Adjewa -
Naomi Watts
Janet Odgers -
David Wieland
"Possum" Piper -
Michael Williams
Sonny Liston -
Kim Wilson
Melissa Miles -
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All Critics (24) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (1) | DVD (2)
Not only worthy of its fine predecessor, this tender, perceptive, and gorgeously acted memory piece may even surpass it in subtlety, feeling, and depth of characterization.
Top CriticMiles ahead of the average teen film, Flirting is a most agreeable sequel to John Duigan's earlier pic The Year My Voice Broke.
Mr. Duigan avoids melodrama, which is all to the good. Yet his gift for the acutely observed commonplace detail is neither strong nor original enough to transform the movie into something comparable to so many similar, better films.
If Duigan maintains the dark yet humanistic humor that has graced both films, we should all be back for more.
This kind of emotional precision -- that is, this ability to make the subtlest psychological distinctions -- is a rare gift, and Duigan gets full mileage out of it.
Flirting is one of those rare movies with characters I cared about intensely. I didn't simply observe them on the screen, I got involved in their decisions and hoped they made the right ones.
An absolute gem, and a treat not to be missed.
An intelligently written and marvelously acted coming-of-age tale set in rural Australia in the 1960s.
Truthful and compassionate.
Animation is used here clearly to allow the story to be told with a certain amount of distance, yet the constant shift in tone and introduction of video elements keeps the film intensely unsettling.
A truly memorable coming-of-age romance.
This thing is worth grabbing to rent for the film itself...but do see it once just for Noah's sake.
An offbeat charmer
Nowhere near as novel as The Year My Voice Broke....but still worthwhile
Puts on display director John Duigan's knack for conveying the universal anguish of adolescence
Surprisingly endearing and frequently funny.
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