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 film 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.
With its complex characters, low-key atmosphere, and sumptuous cinematography, the movie was widely critically acclaimed. It was featured on Roger Ebert's Top 10 Best Films List of 1992. The film won the 1990 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film. This movie ranked number 46 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies.
The film features one of the last appearances by Nicole Kidman in an Australian-produced film before she made her transition to Hollywood; Kidman had previously met and worked with director Duigan on the Australian miniseries "Vietnam."
Parts of the film were filmed on location at St Stanislaus College, Bathurst.
Danny Embling, an awkward, underdeveloped teen suffering from occasional bouts of stuttering,
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