Little Fish (2006)

Good start, but then it gets ruined

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

5/15/18. I only watched this because Blanchett is one of my favorite actresses. As in all her movies, she brings just the right intensity to the role. Here she is a former heroin addict trying to clean up her life, but all the people that probably made up her previous drugged-up world are still around and are not where she is trying to be. That makes it really hard for her to start over. And, for the whole movie she struggles with bad influences and good intentions. If you are Blanchett fan, then watch this.

Dustin Nguyen is one of my favorite actors, and he was a major standout in 21 Jump Street (the TV series). He features in Little Fish, along with other stars such as Cate Blanchett and Sam Neill. Little Fish explores with much honesty the effect of drugs in Sydney, and the destruction it causes amongst regular folk.One of the best scenes is the choir of school children (The Sacred Heart School Choir from Cabramatta) singing Cold Chisel's Flame Trees. Catch it on Youtube if you can. It's quite a moving piece and it represents a poke in the eye to isolationist policies of the government at the time.

You can see how Australian families and their typical life. They can't be happy all the time.Sometimes ex-boyfriends,sometimes relatives who use or sell drugs come and ruin everything.their marriage never keep going good but they make friendship lots of people and they have lots of lovers.Beside the whole bed life sometimes one girl listens music and remember past that remind her happy days.when the music ands hopeless life continuous...I cant say that they will be happy when they get some money for her business because every time bad things can be occur due to these people's life without spirit.However they remind life soul when one of them die or they lost everything.

Tracy(Cate Blanchett, brilliant as ever)has been sober from a nasty heroin habit(among other drugs)introduced to her by mum's ex-beau, a once prominent soccer star, Lionel(Hugo Weaving, who gives a haunting powerful performance). The film takes up after being sober for a while and working at a video rental in hopes to get a loan that will bring in internet gaming and perhaps her own ownership of said store. Her past credit problems halt those plans and finding a way to raise the money she needs is ever so difficult. She cares deeply for Lionel who, I'm sure, was a father to her in that time when she needed one. Yet, Lionel's life has descended because of his intense drug habit and his sugar daddy(and homosexual lover)Brad(Sam Neill)is retiring from the life of drug boss. His right-hand man, Steven(Joel Tobeck)wishes to go into business on his own, but behind Brad's back. Ray(Martin Henderson), Tracy's brother wishes to pull drug deals with Steven and finds a partner in a returning friend from Vacouver, Jonny(Dustin Nguyen). Jonny is Tracy's ex and the man responsible for a car crash that cost his best friend Ray one leg. Jonny was sent to Vancouver as a means for breaking his drug habit and perhaps starting some sort of career for himself. Once Jonny returns that flame is still burning between he and Tracy. Tracy and Ray's mum, Janelle(Noni Hazlehurst), is really at her wit's end constantly worried that her adult children will break their sobriety and wind up back on drugs. Their pasts have caused much anguish and horror. Jonny's return only fuels that, not to mention, Lionel's troubles at going straight. She knows Tracy and Lionel have an unbreakable bond which might lead to her getting him drugs when he has no freebies coming his way.This "drugs and their effects" drama is supremely well acted by this marvelous cast without one faulty performance from the lot. It has a realistic feel to it and, most importantly, you care for these characters because the cast is able to make them human, not carciatures. My only real problem is a rather unresolved ending which leaves a lot of loose ends untied.