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Candy (2006)

Candy (2006)

Drama Romance

More is never enough.

Release Date: 2006, May 25
Directors: Neil Armfield
Countries: Australia, United Kingdom
Production: Paradigm Hyde Films, Film Finance Group, New South Wales Film & Television Office, Renaissance Films
Cast: Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Damon Herriman, Nathaniel Dean, Paul Blackwell, Abbie Cornish, Tara Morice, Tom Budge, Noel Herriman, Adrienne Pickering, Tony Martin, Sandy Winton

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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