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- 2010
- Not Rated
- IFC Films
- 2 h 3 m
- 2010
- Not Rated
- IFC Films
- 2 h 3 m
Summary The film is an emotionally stunning coming-of-age story, electrified by the breakthrough performance of its young star Katie Jarvis. Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her, without any creative outlet for her considerable energies save a secret love of hip-hop dance. When she meets her...
Directed By: Andrea Arnold
Written By: Andrea Arnold
- 2010
- Not Rated
- IFC Films
- 2 h 3 m
- 2010
- Not Rated
- IFC Films
- 2 h 3 m
Fish Tank
7.3
Where to Watch
Summary The film is an emotionally stunning coming-of-age story, electrified by the breakthrough performance of its young star Katie Jarvis. Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her, without any creative outlet for her considerable energies save a secret love of hip-hop dance. When she meets her...
Directed By: Andrea Arnold
Written By: Andrea Arnold
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
81
90% Positive
28 Reviews
28 Reviews
10% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
81
90% Positive
28 Reviews
28 Reviews
10% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The only person who seems to understand the angry teen is mom's new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender of Hunger), though their friendship oscillates between intimate and vaguely creepy.
The contradictions of adolescence have rarely been conveyed with such authenticity and force.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 74 User Ratings
7.3
68% Positive
50 Ratings
50 Ratings
28% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
4% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 74 User Ratings
7.3
68% Positive
50 Ratings
50 Ratings
28% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
4% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
I love this movie. Watching these slummy British people living their lives is so real it's devastating. It's also bitingly funny, naturally tender, and sometimes exhilarating.
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Fish Tank isn't an easy watch – it's like two hours of ache – but there are rich rewards to be had in the many ways Arnold and her terrific team rend us to and fro.
The film belongs to Jarvis, however, and she makes the most of it with expressive features that convey Mia's mixed-up emotions from raging temper to sweet vulnerability. She will go far.
Fish Tank is grim, to be sure, but it leaves us with a feeling of hopefulness.
A grimy kitchen-sink melodrama with an Ajax cleanser script: The muck is all surface, the turmoil cleanly shallow and contrived, though never less than gripping.
The British film Fish Tank is a rare movie-going experience, in that we the viewer move from simple voyeurs to the feeling that we are participating in the story to, finally, the feeling that we are the main character, somehow trapped in the same existence and the same feelings of hopelessness and despair that permeate her life. The her I refer to is Mia (Katie Jarvis), a 15 year old teen living a pretty lousy life in Essex with her little sister Tyler (Rebecca Griffiths) and her single, party-going mother (Kierston Wareing). The three of them co-exist in a flat that is always dirty and they speak to each other with no hint that they are a family â
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An interesting but excessive portrait of an isolated 15-year-old girl who only seems to be looking for problem after problem without really finding a reason that feels not only rational but more edifying.
It's absolutely understandable that a teenager would act in such an impulsive way, but Fish Tank goes so far as to make me say. Enough.
This is mostly because the main character is a mix of cliches waiting to explode.
From being shown as weirdo, an outcast with no friends. She doesn't study, she lives in a disastrous home where she, her sister and her mother can only communicate with screams.
Her mother is in a relationship with a dude who evidently ends up abusing her trust and loneliness to end up having sex with her despite being a minor.
Like I said, it's a mix of a lot of cliches that come to feel disproportionate.
That's not to say the film doesn't have its merits, especially in terms of acting and how its director Andrea Arnold manages to sustain its plot by keeping you focused on the lead character, because after all, everything we see on screen is through her and only her.
I had different expectations of Fish Tank because it was considered a great movie, but to me it didn't seem like anything out of the ordinary, but it's a long way from being called a bad one.
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exact opposite of a porn.....shows how sex is poor and terrible for young girls...i found the kicking little girl to be strangely offputting as well as the poorness of the **** fassbend just fizzles after he **** to say that I didn't want more in the movie would be a lie.....i don't really enjoy following people around especially when so poor but its ture that you get to be this **** little girl and you dont feel that shes really **** except for the kicking **** fact that its called fish tank made me wonder if fassbender had other moments in his life that were similar to the fish river scene....once again a movie solely about the attractiveness of the **** that I **** One and Two is the same..also it could be just how fassbender is a robot who is also only there to be **** all the sudden its ok to bang a fifteenyearold in a movie ....lol again not that I **** horse Idea and kid who doesn't get banged is heartwarming but **** how she cries there but headbutts in beginning....this might be my best **** far as being more tolerable than honey and all those other **** actually better then 4 when that is taken in to **** hard to tell but yeah this doesn't fully seem British ...not that I care
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two girls, that haven't any clue what they're doing. One, a mother, the other, a daughter, and a guy that's a rapist, who also has no clue what he's doing... Are undelightfully brought together by a writer, that also doesn't know what he's doing. Exciting plot elements like ****, and child abuse, are about to ensue in this otherwise plot-less movie. If you didn't want to see anything of substance, you've made a good choice having this movie in your queue! Enjoy!!!
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Production Company
BBC Film,
UK Film Council,
Limelight Communication,
Cinatura,
ContentFilm,
Kasander Film Company,
Ruby Films
Release Date Jan 15, 2010
Duration 2 h 3 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Live, love and give as good as you get.
Awards
British Independent Film Awards
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
London Critics Circle Film Awards
• 4 Wins & 6 Nominations
Chicago International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
