Candy is a 2006 Australian romantic drama film based on Luke Davies' novel Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction, which was published in 1998. Candy stars Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, and Geoffrey Rush and is directed by Neil Armfield, a first-time director.
Margaret Fink's film Candy was first released in Australia on May 25, 2006, and was then released worldwide.
Plot of Candy
Dan (Heath Ledger) is a poet who falls in love with Candy (Abbie Cornish), an art student who is drawn to his bohemian lifestyle – and his addiction to heroin. Their relationship is alternating stages of forgetfulness, self-destruction, and misery, since they are as much hooked on one other as they are on the drug.
The film is divided into three acts, each with about three sequences, and is titled Heaven, Earth, and Hell. The youthful couples in Heaven are ecstatically experiencing sex and drugs. They borrow money from Candy's parents or eccentric university lecturer Casper (Geoffrey Rush), and they sell stuff, steal, and even prostitute when they're desperate.
They are married on Earth and must deal with the difficulties of addiction and family life. Candy becomes a prostitute when Dan buys the drugs. Dan takes a credit card and obtains the cardholder's PIN before stealing money from his bank account. Candy becomes pregnant, but the baby is stillborn at 23 weeks, despite their best attempts to “go clean.” They ultimately stop taking drugs after a great deal of work and severe withdrawal symptoms. Despite their terrible living conditions, continual financial problems, and many disagreements, they adore one other.
They go through the disintegration and recovery of their romance in Hell. They chose to go to the country in order to “try methadone” as a means of reintegrating into society. Candy clashes with her parents, breaks down, and yells for them to leave after a horrible Sunday brunch. She eventually falls in love with a neighbour who is also a drug addict and returns to her former way of life. She has a total mental breakdown and drifts away from Dan.
He glances up Casper once more, returning to his wayward father and immediately reverting to his trademark “yellow jesus.” Dan learns about Candy's hospitalisation the next morning in Sydney, when he finds her in an unconscious, semi-catatonic state. Dan arrives home to discover Casper has died of a heroin overdose, forcing him to rethink his life. Dan cleans up and obtains a dishwashing job while Candy heals at a clinic. When Candy sees Dan again, he says “There is no turning back now. If you get a reprieve, I believe it's important to realise how frail you are “She then gets up and walks away.
Cast of Candy
Abbie Cornish Played the Role of Candy
She is a rapper and actress from Australia. Cornish is most recognised for her cinematic appearances as Fanny Brawne in Bright Star and as the lead in 2004's Somersault.
Cornish started modelling at the age of 13 after winning a Dolly Magazine competition. Cornish won the Australian Picture Institute Young Actor's Award in 1999 for her performance in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television show Wildside, and she was offered her first role in a feature film, The Monkey's Mask, the following year.
He was an actor and music video director from Australia. Ledger went to the United States in 1998 to continue his film career after appearing in many Australian television and film productions during the 1990s. His work consisted of twenty films
Geoffrey Rush played the role of Casper
He is an actor and storyteller who hails from Australia. He is one of just 24 actors to have received the Triple Crown of Acting, which includes an Academy Award for cinema, a Primetime Emmy Award for television, and a Tony Award for theatre.
Tom Budge played the role of Schumann
He is an actor from Australia. Budge was born in the Australian city of Melbourne. Budge began his acting career with roles in Australian television programmes such as Neighbours, Round the Twist, and Shock Jock.
Tony Martin played the role of Jim Wyatt
Martin is best known in Australia for his role as Detective Bill McCoy in the ABC television series Wildside, as well as his role as Rev Bob Brown in the TV series E Street. In Heartbreak High, he portrayed Bill Southgate.
In the Australian drama Blue Murder, he was praised for his depiction of infamous underworld figure Arthur “Neddy” Smith.
Noni Hazlehurst played the role of Elaine Wyatt
Since the early 1970s, she has worked as an actor, director, writer, presenter, and broadcaster in television and radio plays, miniseries, and made-for-television films, as well as on stage and in feature films. Hazlehurst has won several honours, including the Australian Film Institute Awards, the ARIA Awards, and the Logies, as well as being inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016.
Wrapping Up
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