Candy (2006)

In Neil Armfield's CANDY, Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish play Dan and Candy, two young bohemians who fall madly in love while shooting heroin together. In the beginning, the couple's days are occupied with making love, shoplifting, and having a strung-out wedding day that ends with a lot of giggling over a couple of Big Macs. Despite Candy's disapproving parents, they cling to each other with a fierceness that shuts out any and all outside criticism. When funds or drugs are low they pop by the house of a pharmacology professor named Casper (Geoffrey Rush), who uses his professional expertise to supply them with p...
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harmaceutical-grade heroin. As the reality of their addiction creeps to the forefront, they must turn to desperate measures to get their fix. Candy becomes a prostitute, and Dan a thief and con man. When Candy discovers she's pregnant, they decide to go cold turkey, but the horrific side effects of withdrawal result in a miscarriage. The two tumble into despair, and opt to move to the country to try methadone treatments. Candy's depression soon blooms into a full-blown nervous breakdown, and as her parents finally usher her into rehab, Dan returns to his friend Casper for comfort, only to find him dead of an overdose.

Heroin abuse--with its soaring highs and inevitable crash--has been well-documented in many films. However, CANDY brings something fresh to the story with its focus on the doomed junkie love affair. Candy and Dan tumble into each other much in the same way they descend into addiction--with a white-hot, desperate need that blinds them to reality. It's a moving, realistic portrait of how that kind of all-encompassing, obsessive love can sometimes be just as powerful as any drug, and just as hard to kick.
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When a college basketball player suffers a debilitating injury during an out-of-town game, his trip to the hospital is only the beginning of his nightmare in this tale of terror from beyond the stars featuring special appearances by Playboy Playmates Deanna Brook and Serria Tawan. Upon being admitted to the small-town hospital, injured athlete Matt is placed in traction and told to remain as still as possible. His supportive teammates residing faithfully by his bedside, Matt begins to get a bad feeling about his stay as the once-friendly candy stripers soon begin to experience a dark transformation. Now, as the m...
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en of the hospital slowly succumb to a seductive force from outer space sent to Earth for the explicit purpose of breeding, Matt must convince his friends that something is amiss and find a way out of the strange infirmary before his friends and himself end up wrapped in a restrictive, cocoon-like substance and are forced to give birth to a new race of horrible, human-alien hybrids.
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De mooie en sexy Candy ontmoet de roekeloze Dan. De twee worden zo verliefd op elkaar dat niets hen in de weg kan staan. Op een gegeven moment zijn ze totaal blut, maar door hun liefde blijven ze positief over de toekomst. Zelfs de heroïne die ze af en toe gebruiken heeft totaal geen invloed op hun levensgeluk. Als op een gegeven moment het heroïnegebruik toeneemt hebben ze hun paradijselijke leventje niet meer in de hand en verliezen ze de controle.

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Candy is a beautiful young painter in the first throes of love with a sometimes-poet named Dan. Their life is so romantic and their love so intoxicating that they care only for pleasure. Heroin, they discover, intensifies their mutual passion and allows them to get lost in the moment, and "using" becomes a ritual that makes them feel special. In time, their habit supersedes all other aspects of their life together. They beg, borrow, and steal to pay for their next fix, and when there is nothing left to hock, they take more desperate measures. Candy sells her body. Dan lets her, and, imperceptibly, they cross a bo...
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undary as they exit Paradise and enter Hell. As the grip of their habit grows, they affirm their lover's vows by getting married. Their big day passes in a drug-induced haze of bliss. Candy's parents, conservative, middle-class folk, are bewildered by the newlyweds' strange behavior. They watch their daughter's decline, sensing that something is wrong, but incapable of stopping her. Candy and Dan's drug addiction becomes inseparable from their emotional addiction to each other. Their love, like the heroin they crave, is dangerous and destructive. When Candy suffers a nervous breakdown and ends up in rehab, the lovers face a difficult choice--their relationship, with all of its terrible highs and lows, or a second chance at life?
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