Dustin Nguyen is one of my favorite actors, and he was a major standout in 21 Jump Street (the TV series). He features in Little Fish, along with other stars such as Cate Blanchett and Sam Neill. Little Fish explores with much honesty the effect of drugs in Sydney, and the destruction it causes amongst regular folk.One of the best scenes is the choir of school children (The Sacred Heart School Choir from Cabramatta) singing Cold Chisel's Flame Trees. Catch it on Youtube if you can. It's quite a moving piece and it represents a poke in the eye to isolationist policies of the government at the time.

My current harshness to this film might be fed by its current rating of nearly 7 out of 10.Do not misinterpret, this movie is well acted, hard to stop watching. But at the end I am left dissatisfied.For a movie about drugs, guns and addicts you get the feeling that you finally want to see what they are actually like. Not because the actors cant portray the rolls, but but they cant portray drugs, drug use, guns, violence... At the end of this movie I felt like a meat-head because I want to see graphics. Nothing computer generated, but actual frames of drugs, or drugs being used, or people in dire situations. This is a PG-13 drug flick, set in Australia where police officers don't carry guns.Compared to requiem for a dream, spun, traffic, blow, scarface.... this movie is a drama, centered around character development, and characterization of a few recovering/addicted Australia heroin addicts. i wanted to see a movie centered around the drug use and abuse and hardships and entertaining events that a character would have to go through if addicted to heroin... this is hardly what i wanted to see. i wanted to see Requiem for a dream every time the actors where supposed to be high...which was hardly ever.

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.