Looking For Alibrandi Also out this month, is the much-awaited Australian film Looking For Alibrandi, based on the 1993 multi-award winning book by Melina Marchetta. Looking for Alibrandi stars newcomer Pia Miranda in the lead role of Josie, Greta Scacchi as her mother Christina, Anthony Lapaglia as her estranged father, Elena Cotta as her strict and overbearing grandmother and Kick Gurry and Matthew Newton as the 2 objects of her affection. Directed by Kate Woods, Looking for …showed first 75 words of 411 total…

…showed last 75 words of 411 total…but even so, still leaves something lacking on the other side. Looking for Alibrandi raises the age-old question of whether it is really possible to make a movie that is better than its book. It has been proven in some cases that indeed you can make a movie better by adding special effects and real facial expressions, but in most cases, and definitely in this one, you can’t do much better than a book.