Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
British director Andrea Arnold won the Cannes Jury Prize for the intense and invigorating Fish Tank, about a fifteen-year-old girl, Mia (electrifying newcomer Katie Jarvis), who lives with her mother and sister in the housing projects of Essex. Mia’s adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother’s new boyfriend (a lethally attractive Michael Fassbender) enters the picture. In her young career, Arnold has already proven herself to be a master of social realism, evoking the work of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach; and she invests her sympathetic portraits of dead-end lives with a poetic, earthy sensibility all her own. Fish Tank heralds the official arrival of a major new filmmaker.
Katie Jarvis | Mia | |
Rebecca Griffiths | Tyler | |
Carrie-Ann Savill | Tyler's Friend | |
Toyin Ogidi | Tyler's Friend | |
Grant Wild | Keeley's Dad | |
Sarah Bayes | Keeley | |
Charlotte Collins | Tall Dancing Girl | |
Kirsty Smith | Dancing Girl | |
Chelsea Chase | Dancing Girl | |
Brooke Hobby | Dancing Girl | |
Harry Treadaway | Billy | |
Syrus | Tennents the Dog | |
Kierston Wareing | Joanne | |
Alan Francis | Free Runner | |
Ben Francis | Free Runner | |
Jack Gordon | Billy's Brother | |
Jason Maza | Billy's Brother | |
Michael Fassbender | Connor | |
Michael Prior | Connor's Friend | |
Dave Hawley | Snogging Man | |
Lisa Mahoney | Snogging Woman | |
Sarah Counsell | Social Worker | |
Nick Staverson | Shouting Man | |
Sunanda Biswas | Breaker | |
Gavin Cooper | Breaker |
Director | Andrea Arnold | |
Writer | Andrea Arnold | |
Producer | Kees Kasander, Lisette Kelder, Christine Langan, Nick Laws, David M. Thompson, Paul Trijbits | |
Musician | Phonso Martin | |
Photography | Robbie Ryan |
Quantity | 1 |
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Seen | |
Added Date | Dec 31, 2017 21:57:19 |
Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:34:34 |
Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
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Audio Tracks | DTS-HD HR 5.1 [English] |
Distributor | Criterion |
Layers | Single side, Single layer |
Edition Release Date | Feb 22, 2011 |
Christmas 2017 gift from Gail
Disc Features
Director-approved digital transfer, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Three short films by director Andrea Arnold: Milk (1998), Dog (2001), and the Oscar-winning Wasp (2003)
New video interview with actor Kierston Wareing
Audio conversation with actor Michael Fassbender from 2009
Audition footage
Stills gallery by set photographer Holly Horner
Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ian Christie
New cover by Jason Hardy