Little Fish (film)
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Little Fish film poster
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| Directed by | Rowan Woods |
| Produced by | Vincent Sheehan Liz Watts Richard Keddie |
| Written by | Jacquelin Perske |
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Cate Blanchett Sam Neill Hugo Weaving |
| Edited by | Alexandre de Franceschi John Scott |
| Distributed by | First Look Pictures Releasing |
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Release date
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8 September 2005 (Australia) |
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Running time
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114 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English, Vietnamese |
Little Fish is a 2005 Australian film directed by Rowan Woods and written by Jacquelin Perske. It was filmed in and around Sydney, in Cabramatta and in Fairfield. The film was developed and produced by Vincent Sheehan and Liz Watts of Porchlight Films with Cate Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton's production company Dirty Films, receiving an Associate Producer credit.
Little Fish was released on 8 September 2005 in Australia. It received positive reviews from critics.
Little Fish is about Tracy Heart (Cate Blanchett), a former heroin addict who is desperately trying to escape her past and achieve her goals and dreams. Tracy lives with her mother (Noni Hazlehurst) and brother in the Little Saigon area (Cabramatta) in Sydney, Australia, where heroin is readily available.
She is in need of money to become a partner in the video store that she works in, but her loan applications are repeatedly rejected by finance providers, as a result of her past criminal record, poor repayments of credit card debt, history of drug use and lack of collateral. Tracy lies to both her mother and her boss at the video store, pretending she has received the loan. This is one of the recurring themes of the movie, the casual ways people lie to each other for convenience.
Tracy is trying to help her drug addicted stepfather and former AFL star Lionel (Hugo Weaving) to kick his heroin addiction. After a four-year absence in Vancouver, her former boyfriend Jonny Nguyen (Dustin Nguyen), also a former heroin addict, has come back into her life. Jonny, who now dresses in business suits, claims to have employment as a at a large firm and suggests he may be able to obtain the money Tracy desires through share trading. The romance between Tracy and Jonny is rekindled.
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