Candy

R

Released Dec 17, 1968

2 hr. 3 min.

Comedy

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36%

11 Reviews

Tomatometer

48%

1,000+ Ratings

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A naive blond beauty (Ewa Aulin) meets a Mexican gardener, boozing Welsh poet (Richard Burton), hunchback, guru (Marlon Brando), surgeon and general.

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Bill C

Really good time capsule. This is what Poor Things should have been. John Astin in two roles is a joy.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/29/24

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Demetris A

Greatest hollyWood movie. Filled with the greatest actors, only to have their glorious success collapse, for a piece of Candy!!!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/28/24

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Rami A

The atmosphere of this film is not only sexual, but also exceedingly creepy, as well as being extremally psychedelic. Even Marlon Brando said this was the worst movie he's ever done.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/22/24

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Red T

0 out of 5. Maybe if I lived through the Counterculture Movement of the 60's I'd give it a 1.5...The quality of this can be summed up in one scene, the one where Richard Burton is licking the glass window in the car cross eyed. That's this film in a nut shell. The music is the best thing and that's saying a lot because its not good. It's dated and doesn't fit this kind of film at all. Magic Carpet Ride was the only good thing in this. The editing and pacing are horrifically bizarre. I can't believe this goes over 2 hours. I don't even think Candy ever figured out what she was looking for, making the whole story pointless. This is insane how an all All Star cast like this is misused so badly. Even if you can get past the horrifically atrocious acting/miscasting and cinematography that matches, this film has 3 major strikes against it. First its not even the jokes aren't funny. It's that they don't make a lick of sense 90% of the time. If the jokes had been like Airplane! than the loose plot could've been forgiven. Second the plot is so nonsensical and obscure its ridiculous. I get this is making fun of the counter culture of the time but it never forms a cohesive plot around it like Spinal Tap or others that do the same. Finally, this has a rape/sexual assault fetish. It isn't funny or clever like other movies of this time and genre are but just creepy and seeing screen legends act like that is disgusting honestly. Stay away from this at all cost. Everyone involved should be ashamed.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/17/23

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Audience Member

Half a star for the all-star cast. Shocking, pretentious film. I think the cast should have been embarrassed to have been named in it. I was 18/19 when I saw this film but naively wasn't prepared for what it was about, I felt very uncomfortable watching it.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

Disjointed catastrophic scattershot abysmal. Utterly chaotic. (Thesaurus come in handy for Blobbo sometimes.) On other hand, Ewa Aulin - Miss Teen Sweden 1965 - more than slightly pretty easy-on-eyes magnetic fetching. Zero star for crazy movie, 5 (maybe more) for Ewa Aulin.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Christian Marquand

Director

Ewa Aulin

Candy Christian

Marlon Brando

Grindl

Richard Burton

MacPhisto

Charles Aznavour

Hunchback juggler

James Coburn

Dr. A.B. Krankheit

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Renata Adler

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There is not enough material for a two-minute bawdy skit.

May 9, 2005

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

On the one hand, it's a lot better than you might expect, with scenes and lines of high comedy. On the other hand, it lacks the pure anarchy, the abandon, of Terry Southern's novel.

Rated: 3/4

Oct 23, 2004

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Roger Moore

Movie Nation

Notorious on its release, and widely acknowledged by everyone who was in it, and the various actors’ biographers as well as generations of film scholars, as “the worst film” virtually anyone involved every made.

Rated: 0/4

Apr 9, 2024

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

The story proceeds as if made up on the spot with random visuals and without direction or purpose.

Rated: 3/10

Aug 24, 2020

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Robert Kotlowitz

Harper's Magazine

The joke, if it ever really existed, has gone out of Candy in her film embodiment. In its place is a long, dreary vaudeville, six or seven acts' worth.

Aug 4, 2020

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Jesús Fernández Santos

El Pais (Spain)

Candy is an old film of episodes vaguely connected through its adolescent protagonist. [Full Review in Spanish]

Jul 26, 2019

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Synopsis

A naive blond beauty (Ewa Aulin) meets a Mexican gardener, boozing Welsh poet (Richard Burton), hunchback, guru (Marlon Brando), surgeon and general.

Director: Christian Marquand
Executive Producer: Selig J. Seligman, Peter Zoref
Screenwriter: Buck Henry
Production Co: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Dear Film Produzione, Selmur Productions, Les Films Corona
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 17, 1968, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 26, 2020

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