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The Heartbreak Kid

5.2 97 mins Drama   Romance   1993
Village Roadshow  
Director(s): Michael Jenkins

Release Date: 17 Thu, Jun 1993

Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a school teacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course of her life. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and she finds her ideas challenged by the students. Involving herself in a campaign by a group of non-anglo students to form a soccer club in a school where the racist PE teacher only supports Australian Rules Football, Christina starts falling in love with aspiring soccer player, 17 year old Nick (Alex Dimitriades). The ensuing affair forces Christina to challenge herself, her family and the culture she lives in. Managing to effectively combine comedy with a refreshing examination of contemporary ethnic relationships in Australia, beautifully acted by a young cast, and insightfully scripted.

Casts of The Heartbreak Kid

Claudia Karvan

as Christina Papadopoulos

Alex Dimitriades

as Nick Polides

Steve Bastoni

as Dimitri

Nico Lathouris

as George

George Vidalis

as Vasili

Doris Younane

as Evdokia

Louise Mandylor

as Eleni

William McInnes

as Southgate

Jasper Bagg

as Graham

Vikash Prasad

as Vikash

Bao Quach

as Tran

Katherine Halliday

as Maria (as Kathy Halliday)

Chaka Johnson

as Soula

Keith Iosifidis

as Manolis

Scott Major

as Rivers

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