Hey Hey It`s Esther Blueburger
Written and Directed by Cathy Randall

Opens in Toronto July 2 at Magic Lantern Theatres – Carlton Cinemas – 20 Carlton St.

Starring:
Keisha Castle-Hughes
Danielle Catanzariti
Essie Davis
Russell Dykstra
Christian Byers
Toni Collette

Hey, Hey it`s Esther Blueburger is a hilarious coming of age comedy that explores what it`s really like to be an outsider in your own world. Esther (newcomer Danielle Catanzariti) 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 (Essie Davis) demand for perfection. But life changes when Esther meets uber hip Sunni (Oscar® nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes) and her off beat single mother Mary (Oscar® nominee Toni Collette) 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 ok to be different and that being true to yourself is more important than fitting in.

At once a sharp modern comedy about family and identity and a fable rife with incandescent memories of the perils of adolescence, Hey Hey It`s Esther Blueburger marks the feature debut of a fresh new voice Cathy Randall. The first-time writer-director creates an original visual universe for Esther in which a series of unexpected occurrences that display the vivid essence of a skewed world in which this young heroine nevertheless finds a way to make the best of things in her evolving world.