Puberty Blues

AroView: A late-70s coming-of-age classic from Australia that tells it like it really was for Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey, the teenage authors who wrote the then-controversial novel, with Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja perfectly natural as their screen proxies.

These young sheilas wading through the treacherous waters of the surfie dickhead dating pool make for uncomfortable viewing at times, but it’s a fascinating time capsule that is full of priceless teen slang, and has a finale set to a Split Enz cover version that is definitely worth the wait. The theme song was written by Tim Finn and performed by Sharon O’Neill.