48 Shades (titled Australian Pie: Naked Love in the United States[3]) is a 2006 Australian comedy film by debut director Daniel Lapaine, starring Richard Wilson, Emma Lung, Robin McLeavy, and Victoria Thaine.

It is based on Nick Earls' popular 1999 novel 48 Shades of Brown.

[4] The book on which the film is based has also been adapted into a play for La Boite Theatre Company.

Go to Geneva with his parents for a year, board at school or move into a house with his uni student bass-playing aunt, Jacq, and her friend, Naomi.

As Dan fumbles through the process of forming a relationship with someone of the opposite sex, he also learns about making pesto, interpreting the fish tank scene from the film Romeo + Juliet, why almost all birds are one of the 48 shades of brown, and why his best course of action is just to be himself.