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  • 2006
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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 shooting...

Directed By: Neil Armfield

Written By: Luke Davies, Neil Armfield

  • 2006
  • R
  • THINKFilm
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2006
  • R
  • THINKFilm
  • 1 h 48 m

Candy

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 24 Critic Reviews
57
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 30 User Ratings
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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 shooting...

Directed By: Neil Armfield

Written By: Luke Davies, Neil Armfield

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 24 Critic Reviews
57
42% Positive
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58% Mixed
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88
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.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
For a druggie movie, Candy is surprisingly dynamic and involving.
By Carina Chocano FULL REVIEW
63
The way director and co-adapter Armfield shoots it, the film's awfully pretty in its grimness, in the way "Leaving Las Vegas" managed to make train-wreck alcoholism more fake-lyrical than grungy.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
60
As the characters' lives fall apart, Ledger fails to bring the necessary gravitas to the role, and he looks a bit too healthy throughout.
By Richard James Havis FULL REVIEW
50
What we see, though, is the same old same old - beautiful faces turning gaunt and haunted, strung-out hero and heroine, stupid parents, de-tox worse than tox, descent to and return from the depths. Candy could be seen, I suppose, as a cautionary tale; take this as a cautionary review.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
50
As the movie's feet get stuck in its own misery, it made me appreciate "Trainspotting" all over again - its wit, how it moved, the way any outcome for its characters seemed possible.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
40
It's neither utterly real nor utterly romantic (heroin, like alcohol, manages to be awfully and unremittingly both).
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 30 User Ratings
7.0
77% Positive
23 Ratings
20% Mixed
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3% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 30 User Ratings
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77% Positive
23 Ratings
20% Mixed
6 Ratings
3% Negative
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Production Company Film Finance, Paradigm Hyde Films, Renaissance Films, The New South Wales Film and Television Office
Release Date Nov 17, 2006
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline More is never enough.
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Awards

Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
Australian Film Institute
• 1 Win & 8 Nominations
IF Awards
• 2 Nominations

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