Simply Perfect

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Crap about a bunch of losers. Depressing, uninteresting, and boring.Set in Sydney, Australia.It beats me why Sam Neill and Cate Blanchet would participate in such dribble.Cate's boyfriend, another junkie, returns from Canada to work as a stockbroker.Her brother, another junkie, was injured badly in a car accident. It appears that the car was driven by the boyfriend.Nothing interesting or original or entertaining.In addition, it appears that Cate was a former junkie and who appears to be her old man wants help getting drugs because he also is badly hooked.Just crap and more crap.Good actors don't make a bad screenplay a good movie.

I gave this movie 4 out of 10...and it only got that because it is an Australian film and I am very patriotic. OI OI OI!This movie should have been released with a warning.... will cause drowsiness!!! What can I say about the plot?? Well to begin with, it didn't have much of one. The beginning is much the same as the ending....the story doesn't go anywhere and it doesn't go anywhere extremely slowly. That hour and a half felt like a week. This story could have been expanded, more could have been done with the characters. Instead, the characters were left to wallow, no growth or purpose at all. And by the time I was halfway through, I was praying for a door to door salesman to ring my doorbell to get away from it. I even started daydreaming about the housework I could have been doing instead of wasting time watching this movie. I admit to watching it right through to the end, only because I had hoped to see some kind of improvement in characters and script...and was not surprised to see nothing! Actors were mediocre and not very creditable. But with the script they were given, with no chance of making the characters come to life, I do not blame them. I just feel it was a waste of time and film. No redeeming qualities or anything nice I can comment on here.Now I know this is only my opinion and that others have commented on this movie favourably. All I can say is that I expect a movie to have characters, plot and to actually be entertaining. I must have higher standards in my movie choices and I only watched this one because of the reviews I read here on IMDb.If you are looking for an afternoon snooze movie,then this is the one you want.If you want to watch a movie and actually be entertained, then choose another movie.

Maybe identity theft affirms the irrelevance of who you think you are. All the world's a stage, and everyone is typecast. Apparently even someone with the reputed "range" of Cate Blanchett can't attract an audience by playing against (stereo)type, forced to measure up to acclaimed "classical" roles, like "An Ideal Husband" or "Elizabeth." Could even Brando "open" a movie? The characters in the film are stereotyped, as "risky." Even a great actress wouldn't be able to convince a loan officer to overlook a bad credit rating (even if only due to real identity theft), notwithstanding her ability to pretend to be someone else who can't pretend to be someone else. Is acting the last refuge of the identity thief? The film itself defied stereotyping, the ending revealing another genre, both good. The characters strive to rise above hard times. I wouldn't be surprised if compassion and despair could still coexist, like the Bible says, and here it still is news. Outstanding Neill.

Out of the quiet but ripe landscape of Australian Cinema comes a sleeper that film buffs of the character driven and powerfully acted in taste wait for. Artful, cinematic, and thoughtful; this film hums with moments of genius. Though not perfect, Little Fish is the story of people on the outside, living just underneath their dreams. Serious and rough around the edges this is not a film for those who are not comfortable with a darker film with a current of realism running through, but worth the slower moments that must fill any solid drama as it carries along. A perfect film for the academic and armchair cineaste, or someone looking for a bit of cinema with some harsh realism and thought out characters.