There's a point early in the movie, where Josie Alibrandi accepts a lift from Jacob Coote. The only car in sight is a panel van and the voice over moans. "A panel van? Oh no! I'm going home with the wrong guy!" She is even more shocked when her lift turns out to be a motorbike.
             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 focussed 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.
             This main purpose of this is to be a guide for school students studying Looking for Alibrandi. Looking For Alibrandi centres around Josephine Alibrandi's final year of school. As the title suggests, Looking for Alibrandi is about Josie's search for her identity.
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