Little Fish (film)

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Little Fish
Image:Little Fish film.jpg Little Fish film poster
Directed by	Rowan Woods
Produced by	Vincent Sheehan Liz Watts Richard Keddie
Written by	Jacqueline Perske
Starring	Cate Blanchett Sam Neill Hugo Weaving
Distributed by	First Look Pictures Releasing
Release date(s)	8 September 2005 (Australia)
Running time	114 min.
Language	English, Vietnamese
IMDb profile

Little Fish is a 2005 Australian film directed by Rowan Woods. It was filmed in and around Sydney, in Cabramatta and in Fairfield.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Reception
4 Awards
5 Soundtrack
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Plot

Taglines: Everyone is hiding something. - The past is right here.

Little Fish is about Tracy Heart (Cate Blanchett), a former heroin addict who is desperately trying to escape her past. Tracy lives in little Saigon area (Cabramatta) in Sydney, Australia with her mother and brother. She is in need of money to start her own business, but has to help her drug addicted stepfather Lionel (Hugo Weaving) to kick his habit. After a four year absence in Vancouver, her former boyfriend Jonny Nguyen (Dustin Nguyen) has come back into her life. Jonny brings with him more complications when he formulates a drug deal with Tracy's brother Ray, which ends in tragedy. Tracy's life seems to have been caught in a spider's web with no way out. She is desperately struggling to escape the situation that she, and everyone around her, are trapped in.

[edit] Cast

Cate Blanchett-Tracy Heart
Hugo Weaving-Lionel Dawson
Sam Neill-Brad "The Jockey" Thompson
Dustin Nguyen-Jonny Nguyen
Noni Hazlehurst-Janelle Heart
Martin Henderson-Ray Heart
Joel Tobeck-Steven Moss
Lisa McCune-Laura
Susie Porter-Jenny Moss
Nina Liu-Mai
Linda Cropper-Denise Thompson
Daniela Farinacci-Donna
Ferdinand Hoang-Khiem
Anh Do-Tran
Jason Chong-Mingh
Alex Cook-Young Tracy

[edit] Reception

The film received mostly positive critical reviews with 85% of freshness in Rotten Tomatoes. Critics admired this film for its script and the actor's performance. The critic Liz Braun said "Little Fish has beautifully understated performances and a script that emphasizes the mundane and the manipulative in the addict's world." Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly praised it mostly for its great acting performance saying "The actors are terrific, especially Weaving, who plays bottoming out as a tragedy spiked with gallows humor, and Blanchett, who digs deep into the booby-trapped nature of recovery. The revelation, however, is Rowan Woods, a major filmmaker in the making."

[edit] Awards

The film was nominated for 13 Australian Film Institute Awards in 2005, and won five awards including Best Actor (Hugo Weaving), Best Actress (Cate Blanchett), and Best Supporting Actress (Noni Hazlehurst).

It also won several Inside Film Awards, including Best Actress (Cate Blanchett), Best Actor (Hugo Weaving), and Best Sound.

[edit] Soundtrack

The film's soundtrack features two versions of the song Flame Trees, as well as original tunes composed by Nathan Larson.

Tracklisting

1. Flame Trees - Sarah Blasko
2. Little Fish Theme
3. A Place in the Sun - Hoodoo Gurus
4. Pool Love
5. Con Mua Ha - Mylinh Dinh
6. Half Speed Love
7. Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart - Bic Runga
8. I Can't Score For You
9. Flame Trees - The Sacred Heart School, Cabramatta
10. Little Fish Theme (Redux)
11. Ban Toi - The Enterprise Band featuring Hoang Son
12. Lionel Requiem
13. End Credits