Movie review - "Little Fish" (2005) **1/2

Made with much love, care and talent it might have been more enjoyable(and popular) if it was a bit schlockier i.e. just accepted the fact that it was basically a story about Cate Blanchett having to raise $X in three days or whatever, and done all the character stuff in and around that. But Rowan Woods wants to go the long way round, so there are lots of scenes and bits of stuff which is all excellently done it just sort of meanders. (Like did we need to see the whole school reunion thing.)There are a few too many shots of Cate (who is quite good though she can't quite shed the Hunters Hill aura) walking around Cabramatta looking wistful. Noni Hazlehurst is totally perfect as is Martin Henderson and Hugo Weaving and I also loved the actor who played the corrupt cop, he's a real find. Very suspenseful ending, makes you wish they'd just turned it all into a thriller, and put everything else in the confines of the genre, I think it would have been a terrific movie.