Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh, Jennifer Holmes, Gilbert John
Geoff is a 30ish, successful, high-fashion photographer who meets 14-year-old Haley on the Internet. They arrange a date at a coffee shop and then head back to his house. What follows is a spine-chill...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 19, 2006
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January 2, 2010A great cat and mouse thriller in a way, just leaves you guessing who is the cat and the mouse. Some might find it a bit dark in subject matter etc, with some of the scenes as well. How far is the girl prepared to go with her scare tactics. Almost like the little red riding hood ...( read more)
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December 14, 2009Great actors, it was kinda weird seeing Sandra Oh in this, she was in it for like 2 minutes and that was it. O well, pretty deep movie.
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November 16, 2009A taut psychological thriller between just two characters and mostly one scene that's not what you expect...
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September 14, 2009An uncomfortable film to watch at times but it keeps you guessing right until the end.
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February 7, 2010I love it. Teenagers can stick up for themselves! Woooh! Also both Patrick Wilson and Ellen Page are brilliant in it.
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February 6, 2010A brilliant,often hard-hitting and horrific drama/thriller about a 14 year old girl who meets up with a 30-odd year old man who she met on the internet and suspects is a paedophille, and after convincing him to take her back to his apartment exacts revenge in quite a psychopathic...( read more)
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February 2, 2010I really loved the narrative to this film as it kept me guessing with its perfect twisting and turning which made it intresting to watch. I loved how unpredictable and ambiguous it was and how it left a lot of things to your imagination. There was a two-shot right at the beginnin...( read more)
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January 27, 2010O filme tem dois trunfos: a ambiguidade de não se saber quem é o personagem "doente" (embora se tenha certeza, no decorrer da trama, de que um deles certamente é, a despeito da natureza do outro) e a atuação da Ellen Page.
Enquanto o primeiro deles se mantém bem trabalhado até o...( read more)
Critic Reviews
April 28, 2006
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
April 28, 2006
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Hard Candy is an exploitation film, with very little happening but a guy getting tortured for about 75 minutes of screen time. full review
April 28, 2006
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Hard Candy not only trips along a tightrope line between exploitation and art; in some ways, that line is its subject. full review
April 28, 2006
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Seen as a film, seen as acting and direction, seen as just exactly how it unfolds on the screen, Hard Candy is impressive and effective. full review
April 27, 2006
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Hard Candy is a psychological thriller as chilling as a cold, serrated blade to the jugular. full review
April 14, 2006
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Hard Candy, a highly original psychological thriller/revenge fantasy, can be bitterly hard to take and uncomfortably intense, but it's well worth consuming. full review
April 14, 2006
Kyle Smith, New York Post
What we have here is simply a spectacularly unpleasant horror show, or an attempt to out-outrage the trio of poison playwrights I've mentioned. And yet Nelson's imagination thunders away with such dem... full review
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May 5, 2009Really great thriller!!
Love Ellen Page, always have, always will, she's just so good, every time.. Hope she'll never let me down..
Just watch this movie, and you'll either hate it, or don't understand any single thing, or you're gonna love it!!!
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May 4, 2009A little strange movie, but not bad at all. The story is good but some things were a little far-fetched. Like the castration. Still it was enjoyable. Ellen Page is by the way a fantastic actress.
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May 4, 2008May I just say that Ellen Page is brilliant, in every way she ROCKS! This movie was yet another amazing movie to add to the chicks that are badass... Ellen just keep on rockin!!
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April 25, 2008What a wicked little movie, and beautifully shot.
"I fucking hate Goldfrapp"... For the record, I don't! -
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June 29, 2007
Wow, what a crazy suspensfull movie. My friends wanted to turn it off at times but I had to see what would happen. Crazy!
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November 11, 2006Holy Jeebus this movie is perfect!
I mean, at first you think that he's one of those guys who's going to take her home and make pedophile pictures and whatever but she totally changes their positions around in an unsospecting way
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October 14, 2006OMG BRILLIANT!!! This movie was perfectly put together whereas not once during the entire movie could I figure out who was telling the truth or who was lying. Was 'she'
the one in the wrong, stalking and preying upon him for being 'jealous' that she wasn't up on his wall of portraits like her friend was? Or was she ashamed of herself because she wasn't up on his wall of portraits? Who knows. She acts as though he's guilty of something he didn't commit and she's well aware of this but she just wan'ts to make him pay for not taking her pictures etc. But then the ending would totally throw all of this out the window. If he was innocent of what she is proclaiming he has done then why would he agree to what she has said to do? OMG twists and turns every moment of every frame in this movie .. absolutely genius I loved it!
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