The movies' penchant for wish fulfillment often requires them to make their triumphs monumental, but the new film Fish Tank. makes a convincing case for modesty. The story of a teenage girl discovering herself in Great Britain's equivalent of a housing project, its very conception is steeped in understated humanity, but writer-director Andrea Arnold. refuses to indulge melodrama at every turn, creating a film that feels like a less romantic counterpart to another recent coming-of-age story, An Education. , but is just as substantial. Katie Jarvis. plays Mia, an embittered, hostile 15-year old who comes home one day to discover that her party-girl mom Joanne ( Kierston Wareing. ) has a new boyfriend named Connor ( Michael Fassbender. ) Though initially standoffish, she slowly succumbs to his charms, especially after he encourages her to develop her burgeoning talents as a dancer. But as she advances closer to womanhood, attracting the attention of a young man her own age, Connor becomes
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