Little Fish: [DVD] [2005] by Cate Blanchett

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( DTS 5.1 ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Production Notes, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: To sink or to swim: that is the question. In Little Fish, Cate Blanchett does both. The great Australian actress sinks into the role of Tracy Heart, a 32-year-old recovering drug addict who manages a video store in Cabramatta, a Sydney suburb nicknamed Little Saigon for its large Vietnamese population and known as the heroin capital of Australia. As in all her screen performances, Ms. Blanchett immerses herself completely in her character, a damaged, high-strung woman determined to live the straight life while surrounded by temptation. Recurrent scenes that push the sink-or-swim metaphor too insistently show Tracy doing laps in a pool, treading water and dunking and bobbing to the surface, anxious, watchful, impatient to get on with her life. Will she stay off drugs? To its credit, the thorny, compelling drama, directed by Rowan Woods from a screenplay by Jacquelin Perske, is more concerned with examining the conflicted, complicated relationships among its characters than with exploiting the will-she-or-won't-she aspect of Tracy's perilous situation. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Australian Film Institute, Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, ...Little Fish (UK)