Candy

Candy

7.1IMDb Score
Released:2006-05-25
Duration:116 min
Director:Neil Armfield
Actors:Abbie Cornish, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge, Roberto Meza-Mont
Production:Paradigm Hyde Films, Film Finance Group, New South Wales Film & Television Office, Renaissance Films

Overview:

A poet falls in love with an art student, 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.

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