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Flirting is a 1991 Australian coming of age film about a romance between two teenagers, written and directed by John Duigan. It stars Noah Taylor, who appears again as Danny Embling, a character from Duigan's 1987 The Year My Voice Broke. It also stars Thandie Newton and Nicole Kidman. Flirting is the second in a planned trilogy of autobiographical films by Duigan. It was also produced by Kennedy-Miller who made the Mad Max trilogy. The film won the 1990 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film.
Danny Embling, now an awkward, underdeveloped 17 year old, has been sent away by his parents to the all-male St. Albans boarding school in rural New South Wales, Australia, in the hopes he won’t become a delinquent. The year is 1965 and it has been some time since Danny has had any romantic relationship with a girl (his former love, Freya, from The Year My Voice Broke, left him at the end of the first film). Danny is the butt of jokes because of his stutter and long nose (for which he is nicknamed “Bird”). His only friend is Gilbert.