Watch Little Fish For Free

You won't be disappointed!

best movie i've ever seen.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Another indie movie where the dialogue stinks. Nobody speaks in clear, understandable sentences. Everything is vague, ambiguous and one-word. So your task in every scene is to figure out what the hell is going on. It's like a job. Instead of being entertained you're working. Indie movies think this dialogue is realistic, but it isn't. This isn't how people talk. People speak clearly and make sure you understand what they're talking about. I know people are miserable but wow these people are just hopeless. I didn't even like Cate in this and I usually love her.I'm also tired of movies about drug addicts. It's so 80s and early 90s. Don't get me wrong...

I watched this on DVD and my finger was hovering over the Fast Forward button through most of the film. I managed to resist until the last twenty minutes and discovered that I understood about as much of it in fast forward as I did at normal speed -- nothing at all. It appears to be about some druggy people in a Chinatown area of Sydney, Australia. It's all very depressing, without really knowing why. It's a cliché, I know, but there are better ways to spend your time than watching this movie -- washing dishes or doing the ironing spring to mind.Despite having some top rate Australian talent in it (Sam Neill, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving) it starts nowhere and stays there right till the end. It didn't help that I didn't understand a lot of the dialogue and there were no subtitles to help me. This despite the fact that I lived in Sydney for a while, so it must be because a lot of the dialogue is muttered unintelligibly.I'd have ticked the spoiler box for this comment if I thought I'd understood what was happening enough to relay it to others. Sadly, I don't really know what happened to anybody at the end (bar one).My advice is to give it a miss. It's very frustrating, which is worse than boring.

Reading some through some of the reviews already posted, I began to wonder if my wife and I had seen an entirely different film called Little Fish. But no. Cate Blanchett was definitely in the one we saw. There she was, acting her little heart out with admirable skill and determination, but nothing could save the film from itself. It simply failed to engage.The script was unnecessarily meandering and complex and didn't move the story on at a satisfying pace. There is definitely a story to be told on this theme, but it struck us as though the director had used an early script draft by mistake. If the script did go through the usual very necessary rewrite-after-rewrite development then one can only speculate about just how awful the first couple of drafts must have been.Frankly, it is a dud that can best be summed up as "a film about losers who stay losers". And did we care? No, not one bit. Sorry guys!Andy Williams

That Little Fish stretches a canvas for actors like Kate Blanchett to sketch top notch characters I have no contest. If watching actors nail roles is your idea of film then see Little Fish, but if story captures you, beware. The reviews praise the depth this film; for me it drops off the esoteric edge.Little Fish provides a metaphor for the plastic fish designed to hold soy sauce yet double as drug containers. The characters are also little fish swimming in a pool of drugs, life gone wrong, fighting life's currents in a rushing stream.Tracey, exquisitely played by Blanchett, says in the third act something to the effect, "I just want the money for my business." Don't we all. She has a job - manager of a video store - a plan - open an internet café - but cannot secure the loan because of her history. She was a drug addict from following her pusher boyfriend's lead, has a lousy credit history and the shortsighted bank will not see her vision and loan her about $40k.The characters in this film made destructive choices and now face payback or change. An ex-boyfriend played by Hugo Weaving just cannot kick his habit; you don't kick habits in your bedroom. Tracey's ex-boyfriend shows up feigning redemption yet still pushes drugs because he cannot muster strength to sell stocks after a four-year opportunity. Tracy, four years clean, struggles with the temptation to relapse - yet she wants her job money. I feel no pity. It is hard to invest in characters who refuse to invest in themselves.Reviews praise the director for making us feel the characters could be any of us; I did not buy it. Life can betray anyone, yet choices remain and when bad ones are made pity never saves. People's lives do not get complicated by drugs, people complicate their lives through bad choices. Little Fish would have captured my sympathies if it only showed a little spine.If you want to swim in a hole of sorrow, pity, and dead end; then Little Fish will hook you. If you want a positive look at pursuing a dream, see My Date with Drew.