DVD
Hey hey it's Esther Blueburger
Call Number
- DVD COMEDY (CEN)
Languages
Closed-captioned.
Performers
Keisha Castle-Hughes, Danielle Catanzariti, Toni Collette, Essie Davis, Russell Dykstra, Christian Byers.
Publication Information
[Thousand Oaks, CA] : Monterey Video : Distributed by Monterey Media Inc., [2010]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic elements, language, some sexual content and brief teen smoking.
Summary
Esther 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 demand for perfection. But life changes when Esther meets uber-hip Sunni, and her off-beat single mother Mary, 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 okay to be different and that being true to yourself is more important than fitting in.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008.
Bonus features: interviews with Cathy Randall, Miriam Stein, Toni Collette, Danielle Catanzariti, Keisha Castle-Hughes ; In search of Esther ; "The only one" music video.