Candy

Name: Candy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: November 17, 2006
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Heath Ledger

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THINKFilm | Release Date: November 17, 2006 | R

Starring: Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Heath Ledger

Summary: A charming but reckless young poet (Ledger) has fallen in love with Candy (Cornish), a beautiful young art student from a comfortable middle-class family who is attracted to the bohemian lifestyle that Dan has long since embraced. In order to get closer to Dan, Candy whose previous drug use has been casually experimental, starts shootingA charming but reckless young poet (Ledger) has fallen in love with Candy (Cornish), a beautiful young art student from a comfortable middle-class family who is attracted to the bohemian lifestyle that Dan has long since embraced. In order to get closer to Dan, Candy whose previous drug use has been casually experimental, starts shooting up. Their passionate relationship then alternates between bursts of ecstatic oblivion and bouts of despair and self-destruction. Hooked as much on heroin as one another, their story becomes a love triangle -- a boy, a girl and a drug. (ThinkFilm)… Expand

Director: Neil Armfield

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 108 min

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TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Neil Armfield's film hits hard because it sensitively shows how life on drugs can never be about anything else, and how the real horror of addiction is not what users do to themselves, but what they do to each other out of loneliness and despair. Read full review

Ruthe Stein

For all its depiction of a descent into drug addiction, Candy is filled with surprisingly sweet moments and goes down more easily than seems possible given the subject matter. Read full review

Carina Chocano

For a druggie movie, Candy is surprisingly dynamic and involving. Read full review

Desson Thomson

Cornish provides a counterbalance for Ledger's authoritative presence, turning what could have been just another heroin movie into a flawed but engrossing parable on love and sacrifice. Read full review

Rob Nelson

Any drug movie's effectiveness can be measured by the strength of its detox, and Candy doesn't sweeten the cold turkey. Still, it's a downward spiral from there in more ways than one. Never mind the neo-psychedelic-pop soundtrack and occasional double-vision cinematography: Dope just can't account for the film's fried brain cells. Read full review

Premiere Scott Warren

Ledger turns in another stellar performance and Cornish is heartbreakingly good also in this well-crafted film. But once that first plunger is pushed, the surprises are few. Read full review

Marc Savlov

It's neither utterly real nor utterly romantic (heroin, like alcohol, manages to be awfully and unremittingly both). Read full review

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Helenp.

Nov 30, 2006

It's simply gorgeous!

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BrianM

Nov 19, 2006

Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish are amazing!

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georgejoshi10

Oct 10, 2015

This film is brilliantly acted and is well supported by a riveting story. As the film goes on you become more attached to the characters, and will most likely be devastated yet filled with emotion at the end. As the credits rolled and the music played, I got goosebumps and contemplated howThis film is brilliantly acted and is well supported by a riveting story. As the film goes on you become more attached to the characters, and will most likely be devastated yet filled with emotion at the end. As the credits rolled and the music played, I got goosebumps and contemplated how it must feel inside the body of an addict.… Expand

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aurora1

May 5, 2022

Heroine could be a pretty bad thing if you are not a rockstar, as to say a person rich enough to pay for your addiction without losing your dignity, and Candy makes the point pretty clear. But not every junkie turned to drug because of a terrible childhood, as Candy seems to suggest - sadly,Heroine could be a pretty bad thing if you are not a rockstar, as to say a person rich enough to pay for your addiction without losing your dignity, and Candy makes the point pretty clear. But not every junkie turned to drug because of a terrible childhood, as Candy seems to suggest - sadly, even the most normal child raised by the most normal family can lose their mind because of love, and become an addict. The way Candy's father is depicted ruins an otherwise excellent movie poisoning it with that old fashioned melodramatic style that afflicts a big part of Australian cinematography. Luckily, Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish are so brilliant that a few little mistakes are easily forgotten. I give an 8, but it could have been a 9.… Expand

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ChadS.

Mar 31, 2007

Being a painter, when Candy (Abbie Cornish) moves to the countryside with Dan(Heath Ledger, who reclaims his heterosexual screen image in a scene that makes ironic use of "My Own Private Idaho"), Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's migration to the boonies spring to mind. But then you Being a painter, when Candy (Abbie Cornish) moves to the countryside with Dan(Heath Ledger, who reclaims his heterosexual screen image in a scene that makes ironic use of "My Own Private Idaho"), Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's migration to the boonies spring to mind. But then you realize that Dan doesn't do anything, so the prescient evocation becomes only half-right. Dan is no action painter; action hay bailer, yes. Candy can still be Krasner, but her influential(the bad kind) beau is the anti-muse. Dan has nothing to offer her, except his love. Is it enough? No. Candy may, or may not mature into an artist of great notoriety, but she'll never get a chance to find out if the heroin does her in. "Candy" is a love story about co-dependents(who might be star-crossed; she's middle class, he might be "white trash") that has its intermittent moments of underlining the debacle, which is the grade of diaster that drug addiction entails, with startling power and heartbreak. The sequence that documents Candy's attempt to bring life into this world stands out from the rest of "Candy" in which, like all movies about addicts, are broken into two sets of scenes; they're either stoned, or not stoned.… Expand

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