Hard Candy (Blu-ray) R

Strangers shouldn't talk to little girls.
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 10, 2009
  • Originally Released: 2005
  • Label: Lions Gate

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 105,867
Small, dark and intense...
Los Angeles Times
May 5, 2006
HARD CANDY, a highly original psychological thriller/revenge fantasy, can be bitterly hard to take and uncomfortably intense, but it's well worth consuming.
USA Today
Apr 14, 2006
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] suspense-filled movie on a par with Japanese chiller AUDITION...
Ultimate DVD
Oct 1, 2006
Slick slime wrapped as a high-toned, girl-power shocker Full Review
CinePassion
Aug 30, 2009
3.5 stars out of 4 -- This is a strange, and strangely effective, breed of thriller: an indie avenger tale...
Premiere
Oct 1, 2006
To watch HARD CANDY is, at moments, to be very afraid, but the scariest thing about it is the fury of Page's talent. -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
Apr 21, 2006
Rating: 3.5/4 -- It is indeed an uncomfortable subject. But Slade handles it well, and he is aided most ably by the crackling screenplay by Brian Nelson and the two stellar leads. Full Review
The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
Jun 5, 2019

Product Description:

Claustrophobic and brightly colored, this tightly wound psychological thriller is constantly pulling the rug out from under the viewer, mostly due to the tense, explosive performances of its two main characters. The tale opens with a coffee shop rendezvous between 14-year-old Haley (the fantastic Ellen Page) and 32-year-old fashion photographer Jeff (Patrick Wilson), who have previously met only online in a chat room. Despite his questionable enthusiasm at meeting a girl half his age, Jeff comes off as slightly awkward and shy; rather, it's Haley who is unnervingly forthright in her flirtation. She suggests that they go back to his place, he complies, and, once there, Haley seductively convinces him to take pictures of her. She exhibits a beguiling mixture of innocence and precocious sexuality, but before anything happens between them, Jeff passes out under the influence of the drugs she's slipped him. When he wakes up, Haley drops her innocent demeanor and begins to undertake a meticulously planned game of retribution against her captive pedophile. She hacks into his computer and ransacks his house while he watches helplessly, and she ultimately raises the ante with a surgical procedure sure to make audiences squirm. The exact nature of Jeff's guilt remains nebulous, however, creating an intriguing uncertainty surrounding Haley's own mental state, and just how psychotic she might be. Expectations are continuously thwarted as the two characters--neither of whom is terribly sympathetic--enact a psychological and physical game of cat and mouse that is as fascinating to watch as a train wreck.

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  • UPC: 031398125839
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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