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Candy
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2691
- IMDb #1789
- Rotten Tomatoes #2976
- Metacritic #2491
- Letterboxd #1203
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3958
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1958
- Metacritic Critics #2753
- Metacritic Audience #2033
- Kinopoisk #1121
- AlloCiné #521
- Trakt #2243
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 24, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 52, everyone else 71.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two artists fall deeply in love, their romance intense and all-consuming. Their relationship becomes inextricably linked with a shared addiction to heroin, which they poetically call "Candy." The drug fuels their creative passion but also propels them on a harrowing descent, charting the cycle of euphoria, desperation, and destructive choices that threatens to consume them entirely.
Details
- Director
- Neil Armfield
- Writers
- Luke Davies, Neil Armfield
- Based on
- Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction by Luke Davies
- Studio
- Paradigm Hyde Films, Film Finance Group, New South Wales Film & Television Office, Renaissance Films
- Released
- 25 May 2006
- Country
- Australia, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $2.1M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 8 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (35) →
Awards & nominations
See all 10 →2 wins from 10 nominations across 1 ceremony
| AACTA Award 2006 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Luke Davies | Winner |
| AACTA Award 2006 | Best Adapted Screenplay | Neil Armfield | Winner |
| AACTA Award 2006 | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Noni Hazlehurst | Nominee |
| AACTA Award 2006 | Best Film | Margaret Fink | Nominee |
| AACTA Award 2006 | Best Film | Emile Sherman | Nominee |
| AACTA Award 2006 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Abbie Cornish | Nominee |
| AACTA Award 2006 | Best Editing | Nominee | |
| AACTA Award 2006 | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Heath Ledger | Nominee |
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10 awards — Candy
×| Best Adapted Screenplay | Luke Davies | Winner |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Neil Armfield | Winner |
| Best Actor in a Leading Role | Heath Ledger | Nominee |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Geoffrey Rush | Nominee |
| Best Actress in a Leading Role | Abbie Cornish | Nominee |
| Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Noni Hazlehurst | Nominee |
| Best Editing | Nominee | |
| Best Film | Margaret Fink | Nominee |
| Best Film | Emile Sherman | Nominee |
| Best Production Design | Nominee |