Candy is a 2006 Australian romantic drama film, adapted from Luke Davies's novel entitled Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction. Candy was directed by debut film-maker Neil Armfield and stars Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush.
Candy, produced by Margaret Fink, was released in Australia on 25 May 2006 and subsequently released around the world.
A poet named Dan (Heath Ledger) falls in love with an art student named Candy (Abbie Cornish)...
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Candy is a 2006 Australian romantic drama film, adapted from Luke Davies's novel entitled Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction. Candy was directed by debut film-maker Neil Armfield and stars Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush.
Candy, produced by Margaret Fink, was released in Australia on 25 May 2006 and subsequently released around the world.
A poet named Dan (Heath Ledger) falls in love with an art student named Candy (Abbie Cornish) who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle - and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
The film is organized in three acts of roughly 3 scenes each, titled Heaven, Earth, and Hell. In Heaven, rough sex and drugs are experienced ecstatically by the young lovers. They continuously seek money to buy drugs, borrowing from Abbie's parents or Casper (Geoffrey Rush), an eccentric university professor, selling things, stealing,...
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