Candy The Movie

Candy the movie is a romance drama written and directed by Neil Armfield based on the novel, Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction, written by Luke Davies and filmed entirely in Australia between March and May 2005, and had a limited release on November 17th, 2006. Candy the movie was nominated for 20 awards and won 4, including 8 Australian Film Institute Awards, 1 Australian Writer's Guild and Berlin International Film Festival Award, 8 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards and 2 IF Awards and was subsequently released on DVD on March 27th, 2007.

Candy the movie is the telling of a story of Australian poet Dan, portrayed by Heath Ledger, who falls in love with 2 distinctly different kinds of Candy, an art student from a comfortable middle class upbringing, portrayed by Abbie Cornish, and the drug heroin, and is organized into 3 separate acts that include Heaven, Earth as well as Hell.

In the opening Heaven segment Candy decides to get closer to Dan by starting to use heroin, which is his drug of choice, and occasionally sniffs the drug along with other experimental drug use. As Dan starts to notice Candy, there eventual relationship alternates between ecstasy and self-destruction and they realise that they are as hooked on heroin as each another and as they fall deeper into love as well as addiction, they call upon Casper, portrayed by Geoffrey Rush who lends money as well as drugs to them.

In the Earth segment to help supplement there habit, the couple commit petty crimes but when there is nothing left to steal and sell, Candy takes the drastic measure of streetwalking and as a result Dan and Candy decide to strengthen their bond by marrying and starting a family. Their Heaven on Earth eventually becomes uncontrollable and is further entombed by Candy's parents deciding to pull away from the couple after realising that heroin has taken over there lives.

In the closing Hell segment the marriage deteriorates along with Candy's impressionable mental state, and Dan has to make the difficult choice between rescuing her, or removing himself from the relationship altogether in the hope that the separation will allow her to break free of the addiction.