Flirting

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 nearby boy's school, Danny finds himself falling in love with Newton , though he is frequently at a loss as to how to express himself. Flirting is the second in a proposed trilogy of John Duigan -directed films revolving around Danny's "awkward" years. Featured in the cast as one of Newton 's schoolmates is Nicole Kidman . — Hal Erickson