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Puberty Blues (film)

Puberty Blues is a 1981 Australian coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey.

Puberty Blues

Margaret Kelly

Limelight Productions

  • 10 December 1981 (1981-12-10) (Australia)

87 minutes

Australia

English

AU $800,000[1]

AU$3.9 million (Australia)

Plot[edit]

The story focuses on two teenage girls from the middle-class Sutherland Shire in Sydney. The girls attempt to create a popular social status by ingratiating themselves with the "Greenhill gang" of surfers, a group of boys with a careless attitude toward casual sex, drugs and alcohol, over the course of one Sydney summer.

Nell Schofield as Debbie Vickers

as Sue Knight

Jad Capelja

Jeffrey Rhoe as Garry

as Danny

Tony Hughes

Sandy Paul as Tracy

Leander Brett as Cheryl

as Mrs. Knight

Rowena Wallace

as The Headmaster

Charles 'Bud' Tingwell

as Mrs Velland

Kate Sheil

Soundtrack[edit]

The theme song "Puberty Blues" was written by Tim Finn. In the film it was sung by Sharon O'Neill. It was released by Jenny Morris as a single on Mushroom Records in December 1981.

Box office[edit]

Puberty Blues grossed $3,918,000 at the box office in Australia.[6]

Home media[edit]

Puberty Blues was first released on home video in the early 1980s. It made its debut on DVD with a new print by Umbrella Entertainment in 2003. The DVD is compatible with all region codes and includes special features such as the trailer, interviews with Nell Schofield and Bruce Beresford, trivia and biographies.[7]


In 2013, Umbrella Entertainment released the film on Blu-ray.


Umbrella Entertainment has also released a three-disc DVD set with Monkey Grip and Dimboola.

Puberty Blues (TV series)

Murray, Scott, ed. (1995). Australian Film, 1978–1994. Oxford.  0-19-553777-7.

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