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Flirting

Flirting (1990)

  • 96% of critics liked it
    (24 reviews)

  • 65% of users liked it
    (5,435 ratings)

Australian filmmaker John Duigan followed up his captivating The Year My Voice Broke with Flirting. Noah Taylor repeats his "Danny" characterization from the earlier film, while Thandie Newton plays a Ugandan exchange student who attends an Australian girls boarding school. Billeted at a… More

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Drama, Romance, Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1992 Wide
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Critic Reviews

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    Not only worthy of its fine predecessor, this tender, perceptive, and gorgeously acted memory piece may even surpass it in subtlety, feeling, and depth of characterization.

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Miles ahead of the average teen film, Flirting is a most agreeable sequel to John Duigan's earlier pic The Year My Voice Broke.

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    Mr. Duigan avoids melodrama, which is all to the good. Yet his gift for the acutely observed commonplace detail is neither strong nor original enough to transform the movie into something comparable to so many similar, better films.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    If Duigan maintains the dark yet humanistic humor that has graced both films, we should all be back for more.

  • Hal Hinson, Washington Post

    This kind of emotional precision -- that is, this ability to make the subtlest psychological distinctions -- is a rare gift, and Duigan gets full mileage out of it.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lucas M


    Charming and entertaining, Flirting, have a captivating script, acting and a good direction that make the audience watch Duigan's movie from the beginning to his end. Fresh.

  • Jennifer X


    I didn't really get it. I didn't feel the adolescent pains.

  • Dean M


    Sensitive teen drama at Sydney boarding school and Nicole Kidman is perfectly as a 16-year-old snooty school prefect (she was 24 years old when that movie was filmed).

  • John B


    A witty Australian drama. Interesting how Nicole Kidman is a supporting character and yet ended up on the cover of the DVD release. Interesting marketing ploy.

  • Jared H


    Wow, this was a really great coming-of-age story that has all the elements that you would want from this type of movie. I've seen Noah Taylor here and there (I think I remember him from the Willy Wonka remake with Johnny Depp), but I had no idea that he had this type of talent. A… More

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