Starstruck

Title from data sheet

Trini Alvarado (Alicia), Joanna Merlin (Inez Marin), Miriam Colon (Yolanda)

Intended audience: Junior high school students through adults

Issued also in edited version (30 min.)

Issued also as videorecording

Explores the importance of following personal goals, ambitions, and objectives through the story about a sixteen-year-old girl who faces the difficult choice of pursuing her dreams to become a singer, or following her mother's practical example and working as a bookkeeper

Jackie Mullens works as a barmaid in her mother's failing hotel pub in Sydney. Her cousin Angus aspires to be her manager. Jackie's performance impresses pop band The Wombats, who become her backing band. In an attempt to get Jackie on a TV talent show, Angus calls up the show's host, Terry Lambert, and tells him Jackie will be walking a tightrope between high-rise buildings, nude. But Terry is intrigued enough to feature Jackie on the show.