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Candy (2006) Rank 4 Reviews
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TotalFilm
Thanks to films like Drugstore Cowboy, Trainspotting and Requiem For A Dream , we have a pretty good idea of the general trajectory of drug addiction. One minute, youâre flying higher than a kite on a heady cocktail of illicit pharmaceuticals; the ...read the complete Candy movie review at TotalFilm
The Sydney Morning Herald
Following their respective successes in Brokeback Mountain and Somersault, Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish play Dan and Candy, the doomed junkie lovers at the heart of this film, adapted from the novel by Luke Davies. The author teamed with Belvoir St ...read the complete Candy movie review at The Sydney Morning Herald
Greenwich Village Gazette (Eric Lurio)
Candy (Abbie Cornish) and Dan (Heath Ledger) love three things, each other, their old friend and mentor Casper(Geoffrey Rush) and that wonder drug known as heroin.
The thing is simple enough: Candy wants candy and bullies her beau Dan into letting her ...read the complete Candy movie review at Greenwich Village Gazette (Eric Lurio)
The Cinema Source (Benjamin Lee)
TV Guide (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 the complete Candy movie review at TV Guide (Ken Fox)
Reel.com
So says Geoffrey Rush in the Australian drama Candy. Rush, playing a scientist who supplies a young couple (Abbie Cornish and Heath Ledger) with some of their drugs, is speaking of heroinâthe lovers' drug of choiceâbut he could also be speaking ...read the complete Candy movie review at Reel.com
The Dallas Morning News
Candy, Neil Armfield's searing junkie movie, is told in a serenely observational fashion â the hand-held camera work is as crazy as things get â which is good news, because somebody involved with this picture has to stay clean. ...read the complete Candy movie review at The Dallas Morning News
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
Some couples fall in love and live happily every after. Some couples fall in love, become heroin junkies, get married and lose a baby.
The second scenario is told in the new Heath Ledger film, "Candy," in which his poetic Dan falls for the titled ...read the complete Candy movie review at Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
The Irish Times
THE famous advertising tagline for Bonnie and Clyde - "They're young, they're in love, and they kill people" - could be applied to Candy with a single modification, to indicate that the young lovers in this Australian movie are killing themselves. ...read the complete Candy movie review at The Irish Times
ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
Abbie Cornish (from Somersault) follows up her impressive debut with another terrific performance as Candy, a young artist who falls in love with Dan (Heath Ledger), a poet and heroin user, whose addiction she soon comes to share. With their lives ...read the complete Candy movie review at ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
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