Hard Candy, Fullscreen Edition DVD Reviews

Bottom-Line: Hard Candy is at times tough to watch, so be prepared to be shacked and awed.

Three weeks after chatting it up with 32-year-old fashion photographer Jeff Kohlver on Internet 14-year-old Hayley Stark (Ellen Page - Love the Boy, Juno) meets him in the Nighthawks Coffee Shop.

Hayley pours on the 14-year-old charm acting very much the innocent nymph she turned out not to be.  Jeff buys the act and takes her back to his house where upon Hayley prepares screwdriver for them and Jeff passes out. When he wakes up, he is tied to a chair, and sweet Hayley isn't so sweet after all; she accuses...

Hard Candy was a movie that moved me but also disturbed me in more ways than one. I read a review on the movie a long while before I got the chance to see it and it really intrigued me how they could tastefully do a movie like this without coming off as perverted as it sounds. Once you read the plot you'll understand.

Plot: Hayley, a 14 year old girl, met Jeff, a 32 year old photographer, on the Internet. When Hayley suspects Jeff of being a pedophile, she decides to go to his home in an attempt at exposing him for what he really is.

I know the plot sounds a bit wild and risque but it's extremely...

After watching previews after preview of the new upcoming movie Juno, I was curious about the girl who played the main character in the movie. Ellen Page. I know I had seen her somewhere before, in a movie that left quite an impact on me. Only, I couldn't quite place the movie, till today when browsing Blockbuster.com for movies, I remembered to actually keyword her name. 

To my terrific surprise, up popped the movie that I had been looking for, Hard Candy.

The Plot

The beginning is basically a parents worst nightmare.

Hard Candy starts with a teenage girl chatting online on her computer with someone...

Ellen Page is quickly becoming one of my favorite actresses. I hope she continues to do roles where the writing is smart and interesting. I also very much like Patrick Wilson, after seeing him in "Little Children" I decided to see what else he had done.

Well, I was quite shocked and amazed at the story line of this movie. As I was watching it the movie i kept thinking about the "First Wives Club." Female revenge on behalf of their friends against specific men who have done horrible things.

Although I think Wilson is quite good looking, his acting was such that he did not appeal to me at all...

Hands down this is one tightly wound provocative psychological thriller centered around a  physical game of cat and mouse that is as fascinating to watch as a train wreck. It's two main characters( Ellen Page and Patrick Wilson)who deliver explosive performances show you that never know who you will meet in a chat room.

To go into full detail will spoil this movie so the baldly stated story reads like this: after  a coffee shop rendezvous between sweet innocent 14-year-old Haley(Page)and 32-year-old fashion photographer Jeff (Wilson) the two decide to go back to Jeff's to take photo's...

I watched this movie just the other night for the first time, and it has already made it's way into one of my favorite films of all times.

 The movie touches on a very sensitive subject, the issue of child molestation and Internet sexual predators. It encompasses the likes of men who are profiled on the MSNBC show "To Catch A Predator". For some, this subject may be a bit hard to swallow. But there is a twist to this movie, a wonderful twist. The hunter (the 35 year old male photographer) becomes the one who is hunted.

 The story is brilliantly written and acted. The photography and effects...

Whenever I hear the words "amazing" and "great" about a movie I know that's either bogus, or highly exaggerated. "Hard Candy" fell in the middle of this. I thought it was a good movie but overrated.

The plot isn't original nor are the characters. One victim or crusader targets a sick pedophile who she suspects of abducting, sexually abusing young girls and probably killing one.

However, her crusade with the pedophile is more of an obsession, a sick obsession. How sick we find out in the movie.

Like I said revenge flicks aren't anything new and so right there my grade for this movie dropped of a...

Have you ever watched one of those movies where you thought to yourself This movie's kind of slow, when's the action gonna start? Well, for the first 20 minutes or so, that would probably be your first impression of Hard Candy. But if you are patient, the movie quickly "kicks it up a notch". I'm not going to give away any of the many terrific and unique parts of the movie (because personnally, I hate it when people do that because I like being surprised). If yu like movies that are full of suspense and twisting (and twisted) plots, then this is most definitely the movie you want to see. I'm not...

I watched this movie just the other night for the first time, and it has already made it's way into one of my favorite films of all times.

 The movie touches on a very sensitive subject, the issue of child molestation and Internet sexual predators. It encompasses the likes of men who are profiled on the MSNBC show "To Catch A Predator". For some, this subject may be a bit hard to swallow. But there is a twist to this movie, a wonderful twist. The hunter (the 35 year old male photographer) becomes the one who is hunted.

 The story is brilliantly written and acted. The photography and effects...

Hard Candy starring a young but truly amazing Ellen Page (of Juno) and Patrick Wilson(very underated),this film was actually based on a true story about a couple of girls in Japan who try to lure pedophiles through the internet and "show them a lesson".This film was actually very well shot,acted,and scripted.Patrick Wilson's portrayal of a "normal" pedophile makes your skin crawl-yet you actually feel sorry for him,for you realize he is actually a very troubled young man.I am not very fond of the ending(i wont spoil it for those of you who havent seen it),and i think it should've been shot differently.But...

Hard Candy is the story of a teenage girl and her apparent naivete when it comes to older (only slightly) men.  She plays up her role as a quiet, and shy waif, but this little girl has got big plans!  It is a superb example of acting skills on both the teen predator, and the adult victim's part.  For a large majority of the film, you only see the two of them, and so the focus is firmly on the plot, and it's development, not all of the peripheral characters. 

You will walk away from this movie with a feeling of shock and awe, but also a feeling of satisfaction, and dismay. 

I was wondering if they would ever get out of the house.  Much of the thrilling occurs in the kitchen, while a high school girl, played by Ellen Page, terrorizes a child molesting kidnapper.  She scares the beejeebees right out of the viewer by performing an operation where the sun doesn't shine.  Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark!

A great nail biting, suspensful thriller.