Josie's mother is Sicilian and a single mother. Josie is in her final year at school, (HSC) on a scholarship at an exclusive Catholic school, and struggling to come to terms with her Sicilian background in suburban Sydney. To add to her problems, the family is cursed, according to her grandmother Nonna Katia. Josie's mother, Christina had fallen pregnant to a boy when she was seventeen. Mr Alibrandi makes a sudden reappearance much to the family's distress.

Josie's heart is torn between John Barton (Michael Gallina) and Jacob. Unlike other love triangles however, there is no pitting of egos and it's possible to cheer both boys on to victory.

The film's opening on 'wog's day' where Josie's relatives are making tomato paste says it all. The cultural cringe plays a strong part in the daily lives of emigrant families all over Australia and the Alibrandi household is no exception.

One thing I liked about the film is that although f

Nonna Katia is Josie's grandmother. She holds very strong cultural traditions. She has a secret in her past which Josie discovers.

ocussed on teenage puberty blues, it doesn't labour over gratuitous sex and drunken debauchery. It's not an 'in your face' movie but it confronts issues such as teenage suicide and the pressures of exams and sexuality. Personally, I'm against those types of movies, finding them incessantly boring. Not the movie of the year, but it's a refreshing start to a new millennium. I'd give it seven out of ten and maybe, just maybe, look for a sequel.

Christina Alibrandi is Josie's mother. She is a relatively young mother, having had Josie at a young age and bringing her up all on her own, with no contact with Josie's father. Josie learns that her mother is a very brave and strong woman.

Many of the characters in Looking for Alibrandi undergo a search for identity - a journey towards understanding themselves.

Michael Andretti is Josie's father, but doesn't appear in Josie's life until she is seventeen. He is a lawyer who previously had worked in Adelaide.

John's dad's a politician, his grandfather was a politician and John feels the pressure to become a politician as well. John feels he has lit

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