Little Fish

Fiercely loose and less ragged than it first appears, this story of persistent addiction and fragile recovery plays out in Sydney, Australia's blue-collar suburbs and features powerhouse performances by its stars. Thirty-two-year-old Tracy Heart (Cate Blanchett), who wasted her twenties in a heroin haze, has straightened up, moved back in with her protective mother, Janelle (Noni Hazlehurst), and gotten a steady job at a video store in Cabramatta, a heavily Vietnamese neighborhood nicknamed "Little Saigon." What Tracy wants — needs — more than anything is to move forward, to feel that the regimented, drug-free existence for which she traded away a life of vivi...