Little Fish (film)

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Little Fish
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
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Little Fish is a 2005 Australian film directed by Rowan Woods. The film won several Australian Film Institute Awards in 2005, 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. It was filmed in Cabramatta and one scene in Fairfield part of City of Fairfield.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Soundtrack
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Plot

Tagline: Everyone is hiding something.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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 and is in need of money to start her own business, but has to help her drug addicted step-father Lionel (Hugo Weaving) to kick his habit. Helping her mother and brother, and facing her former boyfriend Jonny (Dustin Nguyen) who has come back into her life after a four year absence in Vancouver. 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 and eventually becomes more entagled as the story progresses. She is desperately struggling to escape the situation she, and everyone around her, are trapped in.