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Em 4 Jay (2006)
Hard hitting real life
Emma, (LAURA GORDON), and Jay, (NICK BARKLA), are heroin addicts.
To feed their habit, they become involved in various activities, including putting on a sex show for a sleazy customer. They also rob convenience stores at knife-point.
Hard on the heels of CANDY comes another Australian film about a pair of young addicts who are in love but whose self-destructive lifestyle dooms them to a miserable existence on the margins of society.
Director Alkinos Tsilimidos takes a grimly realistic approach to the very downbeat material, and there are excellent performances from the two leading actors.
Emma and Jay are madly in love and hooked on heroin. They figure they can make a living pulling armed robberies and make it on TV but Jay becomes psychopathic and Emma struggles to keep it together. From the pen of renowned playwright Daniel Keene (Tom White, Silent Partner) and with a soundtrack from The Black Keys this is the real 'hard candy'
Truly excellent look at the other side of life. Good realization to the life of drugs and the means to get drugs. Very similar story line to that of Candy, but not made to suit Hollywood which makes the story even more gripping.