Hard Candy (2005)

Director:

David Slade

Writer (WGA):

Brian Nelson (written by)

Release Date:

14 April 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Strangers shouldn't talk to little girls.

Plot:

A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.

Plot Keywords:

Photographer | Internet | Chatting | Tied Up | Torture

Awards:

5 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Patrick Wilson	...	Jeff Kohlver
Ellen Page	...	Hayley Stark
Sandra Oh	...	Judy Tokuda
Odessa Rae	...	Janelle Rogers (as Jennifer Holmes)
G.J. Echternkamp	...	Nighthawks Clerk (as Gilbert John)

MPAA:

Rated R for disturbing violent and aberrant sexual content involving a teen, and for language.

Runtime:

104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:18 | Ireland:18 | Australia:R | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Singapore:M18 | Germany:18 | New Zealand:R18 | China:(Banned) | Malaysia:(Banned) | Indonesia:Dewasa | Taiwan:R-18 | Philippines:R-18 | Sweden:15 | France:-16 | Hungary:18 | Brazil:16 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/16 | Romania:I.C.-14 | Finland:K-15 | USA:R (certificate #41243) | Japan:R-15 | Chile:18 | Italy:VM18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Arclight Cinemas - 6360 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Vulcan Productions

Trivia:

Patrick Wilson briefly passed out due to overexertion during filming of the intense surgery scene.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: While Jeff is tied to the table you can clearly see the padding in his socks where the ropes are tied.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Hayley Stark: Mmm. This is soo good. I want more.
Jeff Kohlver: Don't get greedy.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Indie Sex: Teens (2007) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Elephant Woman

pathetic attempt to make it stand out

I hate this film. It's all deliberately messed up to be pretentiously controversial. The makers are not responsible enough to even think out the questions but play with various answers some innocently responsible audiences were reduced to coming up. It's not about gender; It's not about sex justice; It's not about crime & punishment. It's merely a mess the makers made to force the film stand out among so many indie films in a so pathetic way. I always regard myself a thinker when it comes to a good film. But this time I don't want to think about the plot itself -- It's neither entertaining or inspiring but sickly raw. Although I don't share the common guilty with Jeff (at least not now...), but I'm not quite sure in the days coming I won't hate or be afraid of teenage girls with short hairs and smooth tongue--not because the film successfully portrays the character, but for as obviously enough a reason as that you get sick, for the rest of your life, of somebody violently sweared to you without a cause.

However, one point to its visual style, that's all. And even for this, I'd rather watch some Rob Zombie's videos instead of spending nearly 2 hours being cornered in a nonsense of dilemma and threats and guilty...