DVD : Hard Candy

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HARD CANDY (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 0031398201168
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: April 14, 2006
Sales Rank: 9260
MPN: 20116

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Product Description:
"Two Thumbs Up." - Ebert & RoeperA smart charming teenage girl Hayley probably shouldn't be going to a local coffee shop to meet Jeff a 30-something fashion photographer she met on the Internet. But before she knows it she's mixing drinks at Jeff's place and stripping for an impromptu photo shoot. It's Jeff's lucky night. But Hayley isn't as innocent as she looks and the night takes a turn when she begins to impose a hard-hitting investigation on Jeff in an attempt to reveal his possibly scandalous past.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 031398201168 Manufacturer No: 20116

Amazon.com:
The supercharged possibilities of a single set and two amped-up actors are explored in Hard Candy, a twisted cocktail with a poison kicker. After a flirtatious encounter in an online chat room, two people agree to meet for coffee: a 32-year-old man (Patrick Wilson) and a 14-year-old girl (Ellen Page). They quickly advance to his house, and just as quickly, the apparent pedophilic seduction morphs into something else entirely. After the tables turn, Hard Candy becomes a tale of revenge and torture that might have tempted a filmmaker like Park Chanwook. Here, first-time feature director David Slade opts for a slick look that stays close to the actors, and you can't really blame him--this movie is like a conceptual, more-than-slightly unbelievable off-Broadway play, a showcase for actors and "controversial" ideas. Those actors are strong: Patrick Wilson (Angels in America, Phantom of the Opera) is every bit as creepy as he needs to be, and Ellen Page has nothing short of a triumph. The Canadian actress was around 18 when she shot the film, but looks like an adolescent, which makes her authoritative wrath all the more shocking to witness. The provocations of Hard Candy sometimes seem arbitrary or forced, but Page's electrifying performance can't be denied, or dismissed. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- The Last Girlscout...
Who is this 14yo girl? She calls herself Hayley, but who is she really? I do not know. Once you see HARD CANDY you'll understand what I mean. I have some theories ranging from the simple to the downright supernatural. Hayley (played by the remarkable Ellen Page) is a true enigma. As the story unfolds, we slowly find out what drives her. We are astounded by her intelligence and single-minded approach. I myself, was charmed, then utterly creeped out by this kid! Throughout the whole ordeal, I kept ... Read More

Rating:

- CHANGES MY WHOLE PERCEPTION TO THE CLASSIC...NUTCRACKER SUITE
I did enjoy this movie and recommend it. Though in truth the ending.....
Anyway we start at a Star bucks coffee shop where we the viewers are introduced to a man in his 30's who is meeting a girl for the first time who is 14??? Anyway they chat for 20min getting to further know each other(they have only chatted on-line you see) and the young girl is very aggressive and would REALLY like to see the man's home. Once inside we see that our male character is a photographer who takes pictures ... Read More

Rating:

- It had potential, but ran out of gas midway through
This movie started with so much promise, but the writers did know how to bring the movie "home". The first seventy-five percent of the movie is intriguing, but the last twenty-five is ordinary and non-imaginary. It's climax is a let down.

Rating:

- Should You Choose To Accept This Mission...
I do love Ellen Page but for this film you would have to suspend disbelief to a state that just isn't available to me since I got into therapy.

You have to be able to buy that a 14 year old girl is able to first solve the disappearance and murder of another young girl that the police have been unable to solve.

Then that she has the technical abilities to trace the offender, engage him in a ruse that he will buy into and get her into his house whereupon she is able to GHB ... Read More

Rating:

- Pretty good movie
This was a good movie, suspenseful, you never know what's going to happen.
The end is confusing and I didn't like it that much, but overall it was good drama, interesting story.

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