Lovely Rita is a 2001 Austrian drama film, a debut feature by Jessica Hausner.

[2] Rita, a teenage girl, is the only child in the Austrian middle-class family.

She leads an extremely boring live, her schoolmates ridicule her, her parents often lock her in her room as a punishment for frequent mischief and outbursts of anger.

She feels the urge to escape her reality and starts planning a runaway...[3][4][5] Lovely Rita became one of the first genre films in Austria upon the dominance of commercial, box-office oriented movies.

[7] Derek Elley of The Variety described Lovely Rita as 'a deliciously observed, ironic take on middle-class Austrian life' and praised Barbara Osika and Wolfgang Kostal for splendid performance.