It leaves Ledger and Cornish all smacked up with nowhere to go.
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11/11/06
Candy (2006)
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Reviews Counted:74
Fresh:36
Rotten:38
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Stars Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish look better than they should as heroin addicts, and their characters are too absorbed and self-pitying to be totally compelling.
Theatrical Release:03-11-2006
Synopsis: In Neil Armfield's CANDY, Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish play Dan and Candy, two young bohemians who fall madly in love while shooting heroin together. In the beginning, the couple's days are... [More]
Starring: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Paul Blackwell
Director: Neil Armfield
Reviews for Candy
Top CriticThose with the stomach for searing drama will recognise superior writing, direction and acting in one of the most heartbreaking films of the year.
12/30/06
Top CriticBoth actors put in terrific performances while the film captures the grim, grinding cycle of dependence just perfectly. But for all that, it’s very hard to get excited about a film with so little to say about [such] rich topics.
11/15/06
[A] slightly over-familiar but neatly told story of a sexual/romantic passion at once partly fuelled and blighted by drug addiction.
10/28/06
Top CriticImpressively directed, moving and frequently harrowing drama with strong performances from both Cornish and Ledger.
11/16/06
An excellent, heartfelt film to compare with Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream.
11/15/06
Top CriticHarrowing and strongly moving, this junkie drama beautifully explores the emotional core of its characters. It helps, of course, that the cast is this good.
11/15/06
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04/23/09
Davies has no new insights into the heroin spiral, but this silly melodrama benefits from the palpable chemistry between Ledger and Cornish
05/15/09
Doesn't deviate much from the downward-spiral norm, but benefits hugely from an atypically loose performance by Heath Ledger.
12/07/06
Ledger’s first film since the one-two punch of Brokeback and Casanova reinforces the almost always accurate admonition “Just say no to drug addiction films.”
12/07/06
The performances are good, but it would be hard to recommend this to anyone unless you have a lovely daughter who's dating a sleaze-bag and you want her to watch it as a deterrent.
01/19/07
Director Armfield coaxes excellent performances from his performers, almost making up for the thinness of the material
11/16/06
...Because we never had a strong handle on who all these people were at the beginning, it's difficult to care about whether they're capable of redemption in the end.
12/01/06
In the end, Candy is a little too sweet and not quite harmful enough to the audience's health.
11/17/06
... although there are some very striking moments in Neil Armfield's debut, there are simply not enough to keep us absorbed the way a movie should.
11/17/06
Though studded with strong moments, ultimately has the feel of a harder, more unflinching version of a monitory after-school special.
12/10/06
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December 07, 2006:
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