- Puberty Blues
Infobox_Film
name = Puberty Blues
imdb_id = 0082956
writer =Gabrielle Carey (novel},Margaret Kelly Kathy Lette
starring =Nell Schofield ,Jad Capelja ,Geoff Rhoe
director =Bruce Beresford
producer =
distributor =
released =1981
runtime = 87 min.
language = English
music =
awards =
budget ="Puberty Blues" is a
1981 Australia n film.The film is based on the
1979 novel "Puberty Blues", byGabrielle Carey andKathy Lette , which is a proto-feminist teen novel about two 13 year-old girls from theSutherland Shire inSydney ,Australia . The girls attempt to create a popular social status by integrating themselves with the "Greenhill gang" ofsurfer s.For
censorship reasons, in the film their age was upped to 16. Much of the content of the novel appears in the film, with several passages of text recounted by the film's protagonist Debbie (Nell Schofield) in a voice over narration. The film closely follows the story and character trajectory of the novel. Some of the novel's characters are composites in the film. The tone of the novel is generally darker than that of the film, and in the novel Debbie and her best friend Sue who join the surfer gang are shown to be much more willing participants in activities than they are in the film. Some of the darker moments of the book have been removed or softened for the film. The film adds a comedy beach brawl between the surfers and the lifeguards that does not feature in the novel.Much of the obscure surfer slang of the novel has been omitted from the film. The novel features some discussion about television series "Number 96". One passage of the novel that mentions the title is recounted by the film's protagonist in a voice over narration, but because the series had ended by the time of the 1981 film the series title is replaced by the generic term "television" for the film.
oundtrack
Music by
Les Gock .The theme song "Puberty Blues" was written by
Tim Finn . In the film it was sung bySharon O'Neill . It was released by Jenny Morris as a single onMushroom Records in December 1981.References
* Murray, Scott (editor), "Australian Film, 1978-1994", Oxford, 1995. ISBN 0-19-553777-7
External links
*imdb title|id=0082956|title=Puberty Blues
* [http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s780748.htm Interview with Kathy Lette]
* [http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=Number%3A7790;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Puberty Blues at the National Film and Sound Archive]
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