Mia is a fifteen-year-old girl is stuck in the world of war with her family. Her lifelong passion is hip-hop dance, but she must keep secret until she meets a new man showing her the great of dance.
7 January 1976, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
12 August 1963, Crawley, Sussex, England, UK
22 June 1991, Dagenham, Essex, England, UK
29 May 1947, Coalville, Utah, USA
24 April 1987, London, England, UK
10 September 1984, Exeter, Devon, England, UK
September 24, 2014
[Andrea] Arnold has a knack for subtle details but also for portraying female characters whose natural warmth and energy have been muted by trauma or social isolation.March 18, 2010
The characters are guarded, and as we come to understand them scene by scene, they become ever harder to sort into convenient categories of hero and villain.March 05, 2010
Writer-director Andrea Arnold, working in British lower-class realism, still finds wondrous moments of connection in Mia's life.July 07, 2010
Fish Tank may begin as a patch of lower-class chaos, but it turns into a commanding, emotionally satisfying movie, comparable to such youth-in-trouble classics as The 400 Blows.March 05, 2010
Writer-director Andrea Arnold has created something so real and raw, you may come away with a twinge of guilty voyeurism, a sense of peering too closely and impolitely into other people's lives.March 01, 2011
The film is remarkable for its depth. It's not drilling in a message about the hopelessness of poverty, nor is it stylising the lifestyle of those living on council estates.February 28, 2011
Reveals the incidental arrival of the first trickles of emerging maturity.March 09, 2011
The film becomes a caricature of arthouse miserabilism, which asserts that the only truths are the ugly ones.August 18, 2011
Fish Tank is a very strong effort at every level, and should signal great things to come for all involved. Bloody good movie.January 03, 2011
Plenty of films have presented us with the Angry Young Man but not so many with the Angry Young Woman ...Andrea Arnold does her bit to help correct this imbalance with Fish Tank...July 04, 2010
A bold new entry in the long-standing British tradition of disquieting social realism.March 04, 2010
Katie Jarvis has a natural presence that matches the unsentimental minimalism of the film.