CANDY (DVD/FF/SP-SUB)

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Oscar®-nominee Heath Ledger stars as Dan, a charming but reckless young poet who falls in love with Candy (Abbie Cornish), a beautiful young student who is attracted to his bohemian lifestyle. In order to get closer to Dan, Candy joins him in his drug addiction. 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 an intense love triangle - a boy, a girl, and a drug.

• Actors: Abbie Cornish, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge, Roberto Meza-Mont
• Director: Neil Armfield
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language (Original Language): English
• Language (Subtitled): Spanish
• Release Date: 2007-03-27
• Running Time: 108 minutes
• Theatrical Release Date: 2005

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Reviewed on 2008-07-17 CANDY- HEATH LEDGER I ordered this movie after Heath's death because I had not seen it and could not find it anywhere. I was shocked throughout most of the movie. It is soley about drug use and death. Don't get me wrong, the acting is very good, but the language is very crude and most of the scenes are very graphic. After I had watched it, I had kind of wished I hadn't. I doubt I will ever watch it again. For those of you who are avid Ledger fans, I'm not sure you would want to see this, after every thing that has happened.

Reviewed on 2008-05-12 Realistic and sad This film is a very bittersweet love story about two heroin addicts. Bittersweet might not be the word, as it is rather depressing. Extremely realistic portrayl of drug addiction. Very moving film with some scenes that are very difficult to watch. It is a rather errie performance from Heath Ledger it being one of his last. Geoffry Rush is wonderful as usual. Great cast, good movie.

Reviewed on 2008-03-07 well acted but lacking something...... I think it's always a bit tricky to translate books properly onto screen. The book this movie was based on was an okay book with some amazing parts and the movie is pretty much the same (perhaps having the writer of the book also co-write the screenplay had something to do with it). It's a movie about despondent youth who turn to drugs for a more vibrant life and not realizing until it's too late at what cost. There are plenty of movies with the same theme and nothing about this film stood out above the rest. The acting was great but the movie started with Dan (Heath Ledger) and Candy (Abby Cornish) already using drugs and I never felt attached to them as characters until much later. The viewer always assumed that Dan was the reason Candy started using but we discover that Abby's childhood was not all rosey as it first seemed and that Candy was the one more strongly dependent on drugs. There were lots of interesting points but they were never delved into with any depth. The movie was okay. I'd recommend Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut), Spun (Unrated Version), or even London over this one.

Reviewed on 2008-02-27 Melodrama Ah, the drug film. A genre unto its own, drug films tend to either a.) Portray drug addiction as a horrific nightmare ("Requiem for a Dream") b.)Use it as a tool for dark, twisted comedy ("Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas") or c.) Some combination of the two ("Trainspotting"). "Candy" is clearing aiming for the a) category, portraying young Australian lovers Dan and Candy, whose lives spin out of control when they become heroin junkies. If the subject wasn't so familiar in modern cinema, this film might have been powerful and shocking, but since so many superior films have already covered familiar territory, the film comes across as derivative at best and melodramatic at its worst. The film is clearly aiming to show how degrading drug addiction is, so we see Dan and Candy stealing, lying, living in squalor and prostituting themselves to feed their habit. Often the film goes so over the top that instead of being shocking, my reaction was more like "Oh, come on!" ... the most obvious example being when Dan and Candy are left in the hospital to cuddle with their dead, stillborn baby. What saves the film is the performances. Heath Ledger is terrific, fleshing out the lazy, self-indulgent, romantic and ultimately more practical character of Dan. (And I'm not just giving him props because of the circumstances of his recent tragic death). Geoffrey Rush also gives a fine supporting performance playing Dan and Candy's flamboyant "mentor". Abbie Cornish gives a decent performance (though not on the same level as Ledger or Rush), but her character is written as so histrionic that it's hard to imagine any actress really excelling in the role. Overall, I'd call this a mediocre film with good performances that is probably worth a look if you're a fan of the drug film genre or of Heath Ledger.

Reviewed on 2008-02-21 White Candy Back in 2002 I went through a phase in which I wanted to read novels concerning heroin addiction. I read Ryu Murakami's Almost Transparent Blue, William S. Burroughs' Junky and Queer, and Hunter S. Thompson's, more about excessive drug use than heroin addiction, one after the other. I am not quite sure how I came across Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction, but its green cover depicting nothing more than a couple of rusted spoons fascinated me and I purchased the novel and read it over a couple of days. I must say while the book was not quite as well written as some of the previous books that I have mentioned, Candy had some of the most grueling and wretched chapters that I have ever read concerning both withdrawal and filth that total addiction can become. (There was a scene in the book when the narrator had to pull out crabs from one of Candy's most private areas in the novel which, of course, did not make it into the film) Sow when I heard that Candy had been made into a film I was on it like white on rice. Candy opens with Dan, Heath Ledger, a friend, and his girlfriend Candy getting ready to take some heroin. Dan chops up the dope finely with a razorblade for the girl to snort, but she tells him that she wants to do it his way by injection. Unfortunately after her first time taking heroin this way, Candy nearly dies, but is saved by Dan when he injects her with salt water. This brief scene foreshadows the downfall the couple will face, but their strong bond of love, as well as addiction carries them on and they eventually marry much to the discontent of Candy's white bread family. After their marriage, and as their addiction grows, the young couple begin to steal more and Candy becomes a prostitute to support their habit. When will it end? Candy is a slow, meditative film on the horrors of addiction and how said addiction can not only destroy oneself, but those around one as well and while it might not be quite as hard hitting as the novel, it is still an example of some quite good filmmaking.

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