Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt) is an Australian teen rom-com about a queer girl and her love interest. It is a movie, runtime: 1 hour 22 mins.
It centres around Ellie, a proudly gay seventeen-year-old, who is visited by her "fairy" godmother (her deceased aunt), Tara, after coming out to her mum. The movie follows her as she tries to work up the courage to ask her crush to the formal and learns about her family history and queer activism through her aunt. The movie has an amazing soundtrack, amazing cast (esp. if you're Kiwi/Aussie), and it's all-around heart-warming.
Highlights:
Abbie is played by Zoe Terakes, an Indigenous non-binary actor who you may recognise from Nine Perfect Strangers! Rachel House, beloved NZ icon, gives a stunning performance as Ellie's other aunt figure. Tara's dyke camp everything. It deals with some very heavy themes around queer history and queer futures but does it in a way that I thought was really great at interweaving the two and showing how they are related. Hopeful! Funny! Heart-warming! "I think we should have the sex talk again, because lesbian sex is very different." "Nope, NOPE!" "And I don't want you to learn about it from PORN!"
My prompts: (more in my letter) - Abbie’s perspective on the happenings in the movie. Maybe she has her own imaginary conversations with Tara? - Ellie and Abbie explore their queer history together - perhaps they could visit a small museum together, walk Oxford Street together, etc. - Abbie takes Ellie to her youth group and Ellie gets to meet people who knew Tara in her capacity as a queer organiser.
Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt) (Movie 2020)
It centres around Ellie, a proudly gay seventeen-year-old, who is visited by her "fairy" godmother (her deceased aunt), Tara, after coming out to her mum. The movie follows her as she tries to work up the courage to ask her crush to the formal and learns about her family history and queer activism through her aunt. The movie has an amazing soundtrack, amazing cast (esp. if you're Kiwi/Aussie), and it's all-around heart-warming.
Highlights:
Abbie is played by Zoe Terakes, an Indigenous non-binary actor who you may recognise from Nine Perfect Strangers!
Rachel House, beloved NZ icon, gives a stunning performance as Ellie's other aunt figure.
Tara's dyke camp everything.
It deals with some very heavy themes around queer history and queer futures but does it in a way that I thought was really great at interweaving the two and showing how they are related.
Hopeful! Funny! Heart-warming!
"I think we should have the sex talk again, because lesbian sex is very different." "Nope, NOPE!" "And I don't want you to learn about it from PORN!"
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My Letter
My prompts: (more in my letter)
- Abbie’s perspective on the happenings in the movie. Maybe she has her own imaginary conversations with Tara?
- Ellie and Abbie explore their queer history together - perhaps they could visit a small museum together, walk Oxford Street together, etc.
- Abbie takes Ellie to her youth group and Ellie gets to meet people who knew Tara in her capacity as a queer organiser.