Candy (2006 film)

Candy is a 2006 film about a poet who 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.

Directed by Neil Armfield. Written by Neil Armfield, based on the novel Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction by Luke Davies.

More is never enough. taglines

Candy

• [when Dan asks if she had sex with another man] Firstly, you don't know what you're talking about. Secondly, I hate the sound of your voice. Thirdly, why don't you just fuck off?
• 'He was Handsome, and very good criminal.'
• 'It was hot, the wax was melting off the trees'

Dan

• When I first met Candy, those were like the days of "juice" when everything was bountiful.

• I wasn't trying to wreck Candy's life. I was trying to make mine better.

• The future was a thing that gleamed, the present was so very very good...

• We had a lot going for us. We'd found the secret glue that held all things together. In a perfect place, where the noise did not intrude, our world was so very complete.

• They say for every ten years you've been a junkie, you'll have spent seven of them waiting. On the one hand it was nice having all that time to think. On the other, anxiety was a full time job.

• Everything we ever did, we did with the best of intentions. But events tumbled and the years piled up. The world is very bewildering to a junkie.

• The world was full of startling new concepts. I couldn't think; I couldn't breathe. I was waiting for her to come back because she was everything. She was everything to me.

Casper

• When you can stop, you don't want to. When you want to stop, you can't.

Dialogue

Casper: This is Jorge. Very limited English, but very large penis! Isn't that right Jorge?

Jorge: [shrugs] ... okay.

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Dan: What if that was it?

Candy: That was what?

Dan: The last shot.

Candy: I wouldn't care...

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[After Dan and Candy take Methadone]

Woman: Is that the flu vaccine?

Pharmacist: It's medicine.

Candy: It's leading us not into temptation.

Taglines

• More is never enough.

• Candy Is Dandy But Sex Won't Rot Your Teeth.

Cast

• Abbie Cornish - Candy Wyatt
• Heath Ledger - Dan
• Geoffrey Rush - Casper
• Tom Budge - Schumann
• Roberto Meza-Mont - Jorge
• Tony Martin - Jim Wyatt
• Noni Hazlehurst - Elaine Wyatt

External links

• Candy quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Candy at Rotten Tomatoes
• Candy official site