Hard Candy (DVD)

Hard Candy is hard work-as simple as. The plot-line of a 13 year old girl physically and mentally overpowering a healthy and sophisticated 32 year old male pedophile in his own home is preposterous, but the films message compelling to counter that provocative fast ball. Like director David Slade puts it in the films extras: 'you don't get noticed in serious independent film unless you're controversial'. Hard Candy is certainly that. The film plays out like a two actor stage play with a simple message: all men are potential pedophiles and adults can only take advantage of children, not the other way around, but by reversing those power roles in the narrative ...  Read the complete review

Hard Candy was a great movie which leaves you saying was he the bad one or was she really bad. This movie also had it's great scenes even though most violent scenes appear off camera what you can see the pain in Jeff's face who is played by Patrick Wilson. The castration scene was a little bit sick but he gave it a good job on that i have to say. Ellen Page now she also had a good part in this movie she gets you to believe her most times. Sandra Oh only appears in the one scene i can't really say much about her. This movie is worth watching i enjoyed it and stuff like this with meeting people off the Internet can really happen and thats one of the points the movie ...  Read the complete review

- HARD CANDY- Hard Candy was Released in 2006 and Directed by David Slade (30 Days of Night) Under the Genre Drama/Thriller. Starring Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson, Hard Candy is an uncomfortable film that deals with the subject of paedophilia, and it is written by David W Higgins. - - SYNOPSIS - The film opens with Hayley (Ellen Page) and Jeff (Patrick Wilson) talking to each other in a 'Teen' chat room on the Internet. As they type out their messages the conversation is gearing towards the sexual. Jeff is open about his age which is thirty two, but nonetheless he is obviously charming and expertly 'grooming' this fourteen ...  Read the complete review

What would you think if a handsome, intelligent and witty 32 year old bloke met a 14 year old girl at a coffee shop, after only having "conversations" online with her in a chat room, and there were clear flirtiness and other indications in their talk that she would end up back at his place? Would you decide to fear for *his* life? Perhaps you should, if Hard Candy is anything like life. Hayley meets Jeff in the coffee shop, and they sit beneath an unnoticed poster for a missing girl. They're both smart - she carries medical student books, and seems to be advanced beyond her years, while he seems to know just how to deflect chat from ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room Hardy Candy revolves around 14-year old Hayley Stark (Ellen Page) and 32-year old photographer Jeff Kohlver (Patrick Wilson), who meet online and decide to meet up for real. She goes round his house, and make a drink, but puts a tranquiliser in Jeff's drink, causing him to pass out and wake up bound in a chair, with Hayley ready to torture him, believing him to be a paedophile. She then threatens to castrate him while he vehemently claims that he is not, in fact, a sex offender, despite there being some considerable evidence to the contrary. The crux of the film lies in whether or not she has simply ...  Read the complete review