Candy

Candy follows Dan, a poet, and Candy, an art student, whose intense love affair becomes consumed by a shared heroin addiction that slowly dismantles their lives. As they descend deeper into dependency, their relationship transforms from euphoric romance into desperate survival. The film is a raw and unflinching portrayal of addiction's seductive pull and catastrophic consequences.

• Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish began a real-life romance on set.
• The film is based on Luke Davies' semi-autobiographical 1997 novel.
• Geoffrey Rush plays Casper, a chemistry professor and heroin user.
• The three acts are titled Heaven, Earth, and Hell.
• Filmed entirely on location in Sydney, Australia.

• When you can stop, you don't want to. When you want to stop, you can't.
• That's the thing about heroin. It makes it very hard to think about anything else.
• We were the center of our own universe, and love was the gravity.
• I had a dream that everything was fine. Then I woke up.
• Sometimes the worst thing you can do is survive.