Hating Alison Ashley (film)

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Hating Alison Ashley
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DVD cover for Hating Alison Ashley
Directed byGeoff Bennett
Screenplay byChristine Madafferi
Based on Hating Alison Ashley
by Robin Klein
Produced byJohn Brousek and Elizabeth Howatt-Jackman
Starring Delta Goodrem
Saskia Burmeister
Tracy Mann
Richard Carter
Rachael Carpani
Craig McLachlan
CinematographySteve Newman
Edited bySuresh Ayyar
Music by Cezary Skubiszewski
Release date
  • 17 March 2005 (2005-03-17)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Hating Alison Ashley is a 2005 Australian comedy film based upon the 1984 novel Hating Alison Ashley produced by Elizabeth Howatt-Jackman and directed by Geoff Bennett. It was filmed in Kinglake West, Victoria, Australia and Docklands Studios Melbourne. The film stars Saskia Burmeister as Erica "Yuk" Yurken, an adolescent brunette who fantasises about a better life and acting stardom; and Delta Goodrem as her school rival Alison Ashley.

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Plot

At school, Erica is not very popular. She is an arrogant girl who believes herself superior to everyone in Barringa East, a council town that is dilapidated and mostly vandalised. She is distant towards other students as she feels her intellect is far higher to theirs. Erica has three siblings with distinct and unapproachable characteristics. Her 7 year old sister Jedda thinks that she is a horse, her older brother Harley is a downbeat hippie who believes in aliens and her older sister Valjoy is a confident, chic, but arrogant woman. Erica sits alone in class, but when Alison arrives, it all changes. Erica at first is desperate to be Alison's friend but soon changes her mind, and they then become rivals. With dreams of becoming a famous theatrical actress, Erica often creates highly exaggerated stories about herself to impress her classmates and is a hypochondriac, constantly visiting the school sickbay for made-up ailments. While Erica loves her mum, she cannot stand her new boyfriend, Lennie, despite being a decent man. While Erica fabricated the lie that her father died, it was revealed that he actually ceased contact with the family.

While many of the teachers at Barringa East Primary are incompetent, her grade 6 teacher Miss Belmont is intelligent and disciplinary, and Erica thrives under her control. She outshines her classmates by putting effort in her projects, and just as her ego begins to bloom, a section of one of the upper-class estates surrounding Barringa East is reclassified as part of their suburb, and due to the zoning system a new student, Alison Ashley, is placed in Erica's class. Alison Ashley is a beautiful, rich, neat and intelligent girl, traits that Erica instantly grows envious of. She is seated beside Erica in class and though at first Erica wants to impress Alison in the hopes that she will befriend Erica, her jealousy of the girl grows stronger throughout the day, until she finally pushes Alison away. Over the next few days, Alison's organisation and talent angers Erica until finally she snaps, offending Alison.

On many occasions, Alison appears to want to instigate a friendship, though Erica stubbornly turns her away out of spite and envy. Alison visits Erica's house, and after Erica's family humiliates her several times she accuses Alison of being judgmental and nosy. The two girls are later placed in a cabin and group together on the annual school camp. Erica is once again outdone and thus infuriated by Alison Ashley, particularly in the camp play, where she suffers from stage fright while Alison displays skill as an actress and is cast in the lead role. On performance she can not bear to watch Alison take the spotlight and flees to her cabin. Erica discovers that although Alison was in the lead role, her mother did not bother to attend the camp performance night as she cared little about her daughter, revealing to Erica that Alison does not have the perfect spoiled life as she imagined. At first Allison got upset with Erica as she was spying, but later the two reconcile and become friends after understanding each other's backgrounds. Following the school play, Lennie proposes to Mrs. Yurken, in which she accepts. Erica finally lets go of her resentment towards Lennie, and congratulates the two.

Cast

Reception

Hating Alison Ashley grossed $2,085,751 at the box office in Australia. [1]

Burmeister received positive reviews for her performance as well as an AFI nomination for best actress. [2] [3] In contrast, Goodrem's performance received mixed to negative reviews. [4] [5] [6]

Soundtrack

A soundtrack to the film was released on 8 March 2005 by Festival Records.

Track listing

  1. "Stockholm Syndrome" - Blink-182
  2. "Mr Es Beautiful Blues" - The Eels
  3. "Don't Tell Me" - Gabriella Cilmi
  4. "Maybe" - Daniel Merriweather (feat. Lee Sissing)
  5. "Green Eyed World" - The Blips (feat. Amiel)
  6. "Cyclone" - Dub Pistols
  7. "Trashed" - Jacket
  8. "Lifting The Veil From The Braille" - The Dissociatives
  9. "Come Clean" - Hilary Duff
  10. "Sorry" - Gabriella Cilmi
  11. "I See You Baby" - Groove Armada
  12. "Lighthouse" - The Waifs
  13. "Mini Morris Parts 1 And 2" - Cezary Skubiszewski and Paul Mac
  14. "Six White Boomers" - The Goanna Gang

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References

  1. ↑ "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office" (PDF). Film Victoria . Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 February 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  2. ↑ "Hating Alison Ashley". The Oz Film Database. Murdoch University, School of Media Communication & Culture. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  3. ↑ "The full list of AFI nominees". The Sydney Morning Herald . 21 October 2005. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  4. ↑ Philippa Hawker (4 October 2005). "Hating Alison Ashley". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  5. ↑ Yench, Belinda (2005). "Tweens love Alison Ashley". No. 51. The Blurb. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  6. ↑ Pomeranz, Margaret. "Hating Alison Ashley". At the Movies. Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 11 March 2012.
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