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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
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
Sales Rank: 2367
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: April 14, 2006
Editorial Review:
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: 
Rating:  - OMIGOD! WHAT THE [...] IS THIS!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok let me tell you upfront that i never write a review for a movie. But "Hard Candy" is one of the most SCARIEST movie EVER CREATED!
It is Completley terrifying and psychologically harrowing!!! Ellen Page was phenomenal! You're jaw will be dropped and won't be able to stay shut throughout the whole movie!! and hours before i still couldn't stop thinking and being totally engrossed in what i had just seen.
"Hard Candy" is a complete horror MASTERPIECE!!
Forget ... Read More
Rating: - Hard Candy with Ellen Page
The DVD arrived as good as new. It was safely wrapped and in good condition. I would purchase from the same seller again
Rating: - Riveting psychothriller
There are movies that haunt you and others that keep you guessing; there are horror flicks and daring mind-benders; there are suspense ridden narratives and atypical treaures: Hard candy is all of the above. The terrible intolerable need to continue watching absorbs and terrifies while you seem disturbed by a need to find a side to root for. The pedophile photographer who may have committed a homicide or the teenager who seems bent on revenge with such hatred you feel for her psychological statae of ... Read More
Rating:  - An Arty Atrocity Is Still An Atrocity
Predictably overpraised torture-swill that I watched on a pay-cable
outlet that, honest to God, followed their airing of this film with SAW
III, and then KINKY SEX CLUB (one of those faceless soft-core porn
films they run in late night time-slots)! An unfortunate anomaly of
programming, you say? Business as usual, says I. Though HARD CANDY
depends upon the illusion of offering acerbic social commentary, its
only value as cultural document is as a prosecution exhibit ... Read More
Rating: - Violent, nauseating and exploitative...but still doesn't quite work
Hard Candy appeared at just the right time a couple of years back. Cinema audiences in America have been in decline for a number of years, particularly amongst the web 2.0 generation, a decline attributed largely to the emergence of the 'teenage bitch fight' phenomenon that has exploded onto the internet. It seems that the average twenty something American male has forsaken the cinematic experience and now prefers watching 5 minute clips of young high school girls bullying and beating each other half ... Read More
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