Candy (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: December 3, 2019
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish & Geoffrey Rush | |
Performer: | Tom Budge, Nathaniel Dean, Tony Martin & Tara Morice | |
Directed by | Neil Armfield | |
Edited by | Dany Cooper | |
Composition by | Paul Charlier | |
Produced by | Emile Sherman & Margaret Fink | |
Director of Photography: | Garry Phillips |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Undeniably affecting.
Detroit Free Press
Without real characters or a fresh take on drug addiction, Candy has little to recommend it for anyone who's seen The Basketball Diaries or Requiem for a Dream.
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Film Journal International
4 stars out of 5 -- [The actors] inject humour, smarts and class into a tale that's no less powerful for the retelling.
Total Film
... Candy is a rewarding experience. It may not be one that you will want to return to any time soon, but it is one that you will not soon forget.
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DVD Review
Rating: 3/4 --
No one would ever mistake this for a "feel-good" romp, but its potency is unwavering.
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Film Frenzy
[N]icely directed by Neil Armfield....[The film] features striking performances from Heath Ledger and Geoffrey Rush.
New York Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
There's a formula here, and it's not the liquid being shot into popping veins.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Product Description:
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 occupied with making love, shoplifting, and having a strung-out wedding day that ends with a lot of giggling over a couple of Big Macs. Despite Candy's disapproving parents, they cling to each other with a fierceness that shuts out any and all outside criticism. When funds or drugs are low they pop by the house of a pharmacology professor named Casper (Geoffrey Rush), who uses his professional expertise to supply them with pharmaceutical-grade heroin. As the reality of their addiction creeps to the forefront, they must turn to desperate measures to get their fix. Candy becomes a prostitute, and Dan a thief and con man. When Candy discovers she's pregnant, they decide to go cold turkey, but the horrific side effects of withdrawal result in a miscarriage. The two tumble into despair, and opt to move to the country to try methadone treatments. Candy's depression soon blooms into a full-blown nervous breakdown, and as her parents finally usher her into rehab, Dan returns to his friend Casper for comfort, only to find him dead of an overdose.
Heroin abuse--with its soaring highs and inevitable crash--has been well-documented in many films. However, CANDY brings something fresh to the story with its focus on the doomed junkie love affair. Candy and Dan tumble into each other much in the same way they descend into addiction--with a white-hot, desperate need that blinds them to reality. It's a moving, realistic portrait of how that kind of all-encompassing, obsessive love can sometimes be just as powerful as any drug, and just as hard to kick.
Heroin abuse--with its soaring highs and inevitable crash--has been well-documented in many films. However, CANDY brings something fresh to the story with its focus on the doomed junkie love affair. Candy and Dan tumble into each other much in the same way they descend into addiction--with a white-hot, desperate need that blinds them to reality. It's a moving, realistic portrait of how that kind of all-encompassing, obsessive love can sometimes be just as powerful as any drug, and just as hard to kick.
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- Sales Rank: 107,328
- UPC: 826663204858
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