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Rated: R; DVD Release Date: Mar 27, 2007; Genres: Drama, Romance; With: Abbie Cornish and Heath Ledger; Distributor: THINKFilm
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Ledger and Cornish have bounteous chemistry as a junkie couple in this
restrained but moving adaptation of Luke Davies' novel, Candy — so much, in fact,
that the film's insistence that they're bad for each other doesn't sit
well.
EXTRAS In a commentary, we learn a post-wedding scene was created to explain
the disappearance of Rush's dissolute mentor character (he left to shoot
the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels). In a making-of, Ledger says this
is ''not a story about heroin''; producer Margaret Fink, meanwhile, says
it's about ''a hero, a heroine, and heroin.'' B
Posted Mar 23, 2007
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