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Little Fish

  • 20052005
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  • 1h 54m
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6.2/10
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Cate Blanchett in Little Fish (2005)
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A woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.A woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.A woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
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    • Rowan Woods
    • Jacquelin Perske
  • Stars
    • Cate Blanchett
    • Sam Neill
    • Hugo Weaving
    • Rowan Woods
    • Jacquelin Perske
  • Stars
    • Cate Blanchett
    • Sam Neill
    • Hugo Weaving
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    • 66User reviews
    • 42Critic reviews
    • 77Metascore
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    Cate Blanchett
    Cate Blanchett
    • Tracy
    Sam Neill
    Sam Neill
    • The Jockey
    Hugo Weaving
    Hugo Weaving
    • Lionel
    Martin Henderson
    Martin Henderson
    • Ray
    Noni Hazlehurst
    Noni Hazlehurst
    • Janelle
    Dustin Nguyen
    Dustin Nguyen
    • Jonny
    Joel Tobeck
    Joel Tobeck
    • Moss
    Lisa McCune
    Lisa McCune
    • Laura
    Susie Porter
    Susie Porter
    • Jenny
    Nina Liu
    Nina Liu
    • Mai
    Linda Cropper
    • Denise
    Daniela Farinacci
    • Donna
    Ferdinand Hoang
    Ferdinand Hoang
    • Khiem
    Anh Do
    Anh Do
    • Tran
    Jason Chong
    Jason Chong
    • Mingh
    Anthony Brandon Wong
    Anthony Brandon Wong
    • Mr. Chan
    • (as Anthony Wong)
    Bic Runga
    • Night Club Singer
    Natasha Beaumont
    Natasha Beaumont
    • Tania
    • (as Natasha E. Beaumont)
      • Rowan Woods
      • Jacquelin Perske
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    • Trivia
      A rare glimpse of Hugo Weaving driving a car; even if it is just backing it out of a driveway. He has never owned a driver's license because of his epilepsy. You can see it was him because of his reflection in the side mirror.
    • Goofs
      When they arrive at the school reunion in the beginning there is a photo wall. "In Memorium" (spelled incorrectly like that) is on a sign above the photos. Below the photos is another sign that reads "Remember the good old days" but when they do a close-up of the lower sign it reads "In Memorium Class of '89". Then they do another wide shot and the original sign is back again.
    • Quotes

      Tracy Heart: The past is right here. It's right here.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Episode #2.31 (2005)
    • Soundtracks
      Flame Trees
      (Vocalise Version)

      Written by Don Walker & Steve Prestwich

      Arranged & Performed by Nathan Larson & Nina Persson

      Published by Palomarr Pty Ltd / Sony / ATV Music Publishing Australia & BigBang Publishing Pty Ltd

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    8/10
    Another Superb Film From Australia
    Writer Jacqueline Perske and Director Rowan Woods chalk up another successful Australian film in LITTLE FISH, an intense, very personal drama about how illegal drugs affect communities, families and individuals. The story begs patience from the viewer as it is gratefully one that does not spell everything out for the viewer, but instead introduces the characters slowly and with hints of backgrounds that bring them to the moments of crisis the time-frame of the film uses.

    Taking place in the Little Saigon area of Sydney, Tracy Heart (Cate Blanchett) is a recovered junkie who lives with her mother Janelle (Noni Hazlehurst) and partial amputee brother Ray (Martin Henderson), each trying to make ends meet in a life previously destroyed by drug addiction. Tracy has been clean for four years, works in a video store but has dreams of owning her own business, dreams that are thwarted by banks refusing to give her business loans solely on the basis of her previous addiction. Ray, his amputated leg the result of a car accident somehow connected with drugs, still sells heroin in 'little fish' containers, occasionally calling upon Tracy to make pickups and deliveries. The now absent stepfather Lionel (Hugo Weaving) fights his own addiction both to drugs and to his dealer Brad (Sam Neill) with whom he has been in a gay relationship since his divorce from Janelle. Tracy tries to support Lionel's attempts to kick his habit, but the attempts are failures. Everything comes to a head when 1) Tracy is desperate without her needed bank loan, 2) Tracy's Vietnamese ex-lover Jonny (Dustin Nguyen) returns from Vancouver where his family sent him to avoid the persecution of rehab in Sydney, 3) Brad retires leaving Lionel without a source of drugs or love and Lionel is replaced by a quasi-normal Steven (Joel Tobeck) who kicks the last part of the film into a spin. There are no solutions to anyone's problems: things just happen and the characters respond in the best way they can with the ominous cloud of drug addiction shading their lives and futures.

    The script is terse and smart and the direction is relentlessly realistic and well paced. Cate Blanchett gives a sterling portrayal of the very complex Tracy, and Hugo Weaving, Noni Hazelhurst, Sam Neill, Dustin Nguyen, and Martin Henderson are superb. This is a tough little film that does not fear to examine the truth about the effect of drugs on people's lives and spirits. It is a very fine film. Recommended. Grady Harp
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    • Apr 14, 2006

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    • Release date
      • September 8, 2005 (Australia)
      • Australia
      • Vietnamese
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Bankstown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    • Production companies
      • Porchlight Films
      • Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC)
      • Mullis Capital Independent
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    • 1 hour 54 minutes
      • Color
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