Video: Looking For Alibrandi

Herald rating: * * *

Running time: 103 mins

Rental: Now

Review: Ewan McDoanld

Josie Alibrandi has a lot to deal with: she's 17, it's the last year of high school, she's got exams and the boy of her dreams seems out of reach.

Then there's another problem: to her schoolmates she's known by a three-letter word for a foreigner which I won't use but our culturally sensitive cousins would.

This coming-of-age movie features Pia Miranda (Neighbours, but she can act), Greta Scacchi as her (shock!) unwed mum and Anthony LaPaglia (Murder One and so long a part of Italian-American films that you may be surprised to know he's from Adelaide) in a sensitive and humorous look at modern Australia.