Candy is based on the novel by Luke Davies. It stars Heath Ledger as Dan, a charming but reckless young poet who has fallen in love with Candy played by Abbie Cornish, a beautiful young art student from a comfortable middle-class family who is attracted to the bohemian lifestyle that Dan has long since embraced. In order to get closer to Dan, Candy starts shooting up. Their passionate relationship then alternates between bursts of ecstatic oblivion and bouts of despair and self-destruction. Hooked as much on heroin as one another, their story becomes a love triangle - a boy, a girl, and a drug.

• The name of the novel is Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction.

• The song that plays in the Australian trailer is "Sugarman" by Rodriguez.

• Two versions of "Song to the Siren" plays in the film.

• Awards: 4 wins & 16 nominations. (view)

• "At the start Dan and Candy seem to swim in this feeling like a pool. They get in and out of body of heroin, but as the film unfolds the body of water gets bigger and murkier and there are no edges for either of them to lift themeselves out."

• "Every character I play has parts of me in it. But Candy, she is so free, she could do anything with her life."

• "I've just always had in my head this idea of the most amazing film that I was ever going to be in and it was Candy. I remember I read the script and, you know, it's not like I imagined the exact film or anything. But I knew what sort of character I wanted to ultimately play and what sort of struggle I wanted to portray."

• "I see Heidi and Candy as being completely different. Heidi's bubble is probably this big..." She squishes her thumb and forefinger together to make her point. "And she was completely within that bubble - very shy, very timid, and super-sensitive. Then you get Candy. Candy is just fearless. Her bubble is gigantic. Her vision is far... she's so raw. Candy knows sex. She knows her sexuality. She knows what lovemaking is. Heidi has no idea. Candy is more of a woman, I think. Heidi is more like a girl."

• "We're the coolest people in McDonald's."

• "Once upon a time, there was Candy and Dan..." (read poem)

• "We're junkies. I'm a hooker... He's hopeless. Right now things are very complicated and we haven't got any money."

• Candy: "You slimy cunt."
Dan: "What?"
Candy: "What do you fucking reckon?"
Dan: "I just had a quick little hit, it was nothing."
Candy: "Where?"
Dan: "Umm, in the park"
Candy: "Did Angelo do it with you?"
Dan: "No of course not - he left as soon as we did the deal."
Candy: "Because he's decent enough to go home to his girlfriend like you should."
Dan: "Oh Candy, he sold me the dope. Why would he wanna have a hit with me in the public toliet?"
Candy: "Well, why the fuck would you?!"

• Dan: "What's your problem?"
Candy: "You're my fucking problem, you're a waste of space!"

• Candy: "Dan have you noticed the more I work the less I paint?"
Dan: "Candy I don't wanna fight, I just don't see what your problem is - tonight. I mean you've got a life. It's neither good nor bad, okay?"
Candy: "Do you know... Do you know what I do? Listen to this, dickfuck. What do I do I do all day: I fuck men I hate! What are you gonna do about it?!"

• "Baby, I wanna keep using, I'm sick of working, yes, but what if I wanna keep using? What are you gonna do about it?"

• "You start working, you hook your arse."

• Casper: "Does it ever embarass you Candy? 'His naked desperation.'
Candy: "The nakedness I can deal with."

• "When I first met Candy, birds filled the sky."

• The world's very bewildering to a junkie."

• "Abbie has an incredible determination. She has an uncanny sense of her own strengths. There were things she felt very strongly about and we would fight about some things in a creative way."
- Neil Armfield (Candy director)

• "It's incredible how true she is. There's such a control of how she releases a character arc through the camera."
- Neil Armfield (Candy director)

• "Abbie is going to be a huge star. She has every component you need to to achieve that: beauty, talent, ambition and a respect for the medium."
- Margaret Fink (Candy producer)

• "Heroin undoes the mundane in Candy. It makes everything extraordinary. It makes sunlight drip of trees and gives you gills to breath underwater."
- Yen Magazine

From Critics

• "Cornish is utterly magnetic...A performance of incredible depth and intensity."
- Ghita Loebstein, The Big Issue

• "A great cinematic realisation of a very gritty, poetic love story."
- Jo Chichester, Vogue

• "A film of lyrical beauty."
- Marta Jary, Rolling Stone

• "Abbie Cornish gives her most compelling performance yet."
- New Woman Magazine

• "Ledger and Cornish are so good it's possible to forget the familiarity of the script. These are two tragic characters trapped in a decaying orbit. "
- James Berardinelli, Reel Views

• "Still, for a druggie movie, Candy is surprisingly dynamic and involving, and Armfield refrains from moralizing to closely observe the parallels between different forms of intoxication. Hovering on the sidelines of the genre, it declines to turn the grind of addiction into a grim metaphor for life and settles for telling an intimate story about a marriage felled by an insidious force."
- Carina Chocano, Calendar Live

Candy is a beautiful movie lead by breath-taking performances by Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush and especially Abbie Cornish. She gives a tour de force performance and is utterly magnetic to watch as Candy. Marks one of the best performances I had the pleasure of seeing in 2006. Must see for any Abbie fan or lover of well acted cinema. Candy will leave you in tears - from both joy and heartbreak." - Riikka

Candy is a seductive film that pulls you in from it's opening scene. It's beautifully filmed and the cast is exceptional. It's hard not to fall in love with Abbie Cornish in this movie, she gives a performance so real and hypnotic you can't keep your eyes off her. If you're new to her or are a fan already this is the role to see. Top rate performances from the entire cast breathe life into a well-known genre and leave a lasting impression." - Mycah