The Heartbreak Kid
Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a school teacher from a prosperous Greek-Australian family. She is engaged to a lawyer and pleased with her conventional existence. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and immediately encounters opposition to her ideas from the children. Christina falls in love with Nick, a 17-year-old aspiring soccer player, after being involved in a campaign by a group of non-anglo kids to join a soccer club at a school where the racist PE instructor only promotes Australian Rules Football (Alex Dimitriades). Christina is forced to confront herself, her family, and the culture in which she lives as a result of the ensuing affair. Combining comedy with a refreshing assessment of contemporary Australian ethnic relationships, brilliantly done by a young cast, and insightfully scripted.
Released: 1993-06-17
Duration: 97
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