Original Puberty Blues movie on ABC2

Just noticed Bruce Beresford’s 1981 feature Puberty Blues is screening tonight on ABC2.

Adapted from the popular novel by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette, Puberty Blues traces the lives of two adolescent females who have spent the first part of their lives in a group by themselves, while desperately trying to break into the ‘in-crowd’ who dominate the Greenhill beach. Once accepted into the group, they realise the laid-back, ultra-cool facade is just that: a glossy cover-up. As Debbie (Nell Schofield) and her life-long companion Sue (Jad Capelja) are drawn into the group’s many vices, including drug-usage and casual sex, they begin to realise there might be more to life and set out to regain respect and equality.

It starts at 11:50pm tonight on ABC2.