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CandyThis story is a narration from an Australian man who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject while Candy changes from an actress call girl streetwalker and then a madwoman. Starting in Sydney the two eventually end up in Melbourne to go clean but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin while other posessions and attachments become unimportant.System Requirements:Run Time: 108 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 821575549950 Manufacturer No: TF-54995
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Powerful performances by Angel 
is why I’m giving this film 4 stars. I rented this, wanting to see Heath Ledger’s work in the film…and on the strentgh of his performance alone…I can recommend this. It is difficult and almost haunting to watch, knowing this was one of his last films. I found it to be a very true and realistic story of love…and drugs…and the affect drugs have on their lives in the story. Dan and Candy (the actress who played Candy also gave gave a very strong performance) had so much potential…she was an artist, a painter…and he was a poet. But, as their drug addiction grows stronger…we watch their lives go deeper and deeper into a downward spiral. They try to get their act together and clean up when Candy becomes pregnant…but she ends up miscarrying the child…and their spirits are truely broken after that. Through it all, you can always feel Dan and Candy’s love for each other…but the drugs get in the way…and they become other people…Candy eventually has a nervous breakdown and goes to a hospital to get better. While she’s recovering, Dan is slowly getting his life back together too. We see him finally getting a job…working as a dishwasher in a chinese restaraunt and clean and sober for once. You get the feeling he is on the mend…getting better…but he is still stuggling…and missing Candy. The final scene is what really got me…I watched it over and over again…because it was that good. When Candy is released from the hosptital, she comes to see Dan at the restaraunt he’s working at. The love that they have for each other is very clear…but in a heart breaking moment…and a scene that is almost hard to watch because it so real and honest…Dan breaks down…(Ledger is amazing in this scene…I was crying with him)…because he knows he has to let Candy go. With tears in his eyes, he tells her there’s no going back…they need to remember how clean things are right now. Up until the ending, I was glad enough to just have rented the movie…but after watching the final scene…I knew I wanted it in my dvd collection…even if only to watch that scene again and again. I apologize for giving too much of the story away here…but I hope that you do give this movie a tyr. It is worth seeing. It makes me so sad to think that we won’t be blessed in Heath Ledger’s talent anymore…and I’m already missing all the films he will never get the chance to do.
Heath Ledger was the Joker. by The Talking Fish 
Listen - The bottom line is this:
I have not watched “Candy” yet, nor do I plan to. I bought it because Heath Ledger played the Joker in one of the best movies ever made (The Dark Knight) and I wanted to let you all know… in case you hadn’t heard.
-Pleco
Everlasting love in a vial by Schtinky 
‘Candy’ is an Australian film, a love story between two junkies. The movie divides itself into three parts: Heaven, Earth, and He||. Dan (played by talented and memorable Heath Ledger - RIP Heath) and Candy (Abbie Cornish) have a love that’s true. Their highs are high and their lows are low. At one point, after spiking up and nodding off during their wedding reception at Candy’s parents, they sit outside McDonald’s sipping chocolate shakes and declaring “We’re the coolest people at McDonald’s”.
Their days are spent hitting up friends and family for money, stealing, hawking what possessions they have, and finally turning to prostitution to feed their heroin habits. They speak of the clean life, yet scoff at it when their next fix is due. Best friend Casper (Geoffrey Rush) winds out taking them in. Casper is their homo father figure and sometimes provider. Dan and Candy’s lifestyles go up and down, depending on their drug use. Candy confesses to a rent-collector that “I’m a prostitute and he’s worthless, we don’t have any money”. Their lives deteriorate though pregnancy, miscarriage, and eventual nervous breakdown. Can a love this true withstand the trials of heroin, heartbreak, time, and tragedy?
The movie is based on the novel ‘Candy’ written by Luke Davies. (Watch for Davies in the film, in his cameo of the milkman) The novel is one of the best books I’ve ever read, Davies puts a whisper of poetry into his words, making them beautiful and hypnotic. While the movie stays close to the book, there is the added role of Casper, and the fact that Dan and Candy fight more in the film than in the book. Certain parts are left out, like the lazy day spent picking crabs off each other. If you like the movie, you really MUST read the book. The acting is superb in this film (what a tragedy to lose Heath Ledger). The costume designer captured the “look” of the addict, especially with Dan’s greasy, unkept look. The script was well done and the atmosphere is perfect. Rent first, then buy. Enjoy!
An Absolutely Beautiful Movie by K. Blaylock 
I finally got the chance to watch “Candy” with Heath Ledger (R.I.P. Heath) and Abbie Cornish and I loved it. Very intense. You can’t help but fall in love and feel the emotions of these characters as they go through the struggles of drug addiction, love, life and loss. I am so glad I have added this to my movie collection.
Prophetic, Beautiful, Honest, & Heartbreaking by M.Harward 
Reminiscent of Aleister Crowley’s novel Diary of a Drug Fiend, Candy is a work of art. Those who have actually felt the gnawing desperation along with the highs of love and drug addiction will appreciate this film for it’s authenticity and vulnerability. When one is addicted to anyone or anything nothing else matters, literally. Reviewers using the word cliche feel pretty clever I imagine. However there are no cliches in this movie for this is exactly how it is. The physical and emotional torture these two young actors endured to make this movie should emphasize how important they felt this project was. There are scenes that make you sit up in panic a moment after Candy asks to “try it your way”, lean back in a daze trying to keep it from turning into dizziness as they circle each other in a blur, laugh at the pathetic hilarity as they load a washer into the trunk of their car and head to the pawn shop, feel the rush when they kiss as if they haven’t seen each other in years or when the hit hits the bloodstream, the fist clenching grief of parents struggling to keep their composure as their baby girl lies to their face, and finally the deep sigh as the credits appear knowing that this is how it must end whether we want it to or not. If you are interested now please watch it. If you understand what I’ve been saying you really should own this film.
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