Hard Candy | Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page

Hard Candy | Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page | Teen is a fiend! Men's worst nightmare! See it if you dare!

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Hard Candy

	Hard Candy Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page Lions Gate, 2006 average customer review:based on 206 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Good Movie

Hard Candy is a great movie and the concept is definitely interesting. Although Jeff Kohlver was definitely a pedophile in the movie, the movie made Hayley appear as a crazy predator. What I love about this film, other than the concept, is the cinematography. I enjoyed the interaction with the characters without the distraction of frivolous characters and locations. The color is also great. The digital colorist did a great job displaying the emotions of the characters with the color. I think that Hard Candy is an underrated film. Ellen Page is more convincing in Hard Candy than her breakthrough film Juno.

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Teen is a fiend! Men's worst nightmare! See it if you dare!

My take on Hard Candy is different from most. I see it as an exploitation movie, and a terrific one at that. If you think about it, HC is a much more sophisticated take on what Hershell Gordon Lewis was turning out 40 years ago. (Interesting that Lewis is referenced in Ellen Page's Juno).

As soon as I saw Jeff "tasting" the chocolate on Hayley's trembling lips, I knew this was not a movie to be taken seriously.

There's no "message" HC. It is not a "teaching moment." It just uses pedophilia to amp up what is essentially a movie about an exciting showdown.

The movie is about verbal sparring (the comparison to "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" is right on), mind control, psychological terror and suspense. He insists on his innocence. She is determined to drag a confession out of him. The tables keep turning.

The "castration scene," I thought, was pretty funny (and I'm a guy). Another funny scene is "tasered" Jeff coming at her with a knife. On his knees.

The end seems solemn, but is really a joke. Listen carefully to the last two words Hayley speaks. Cracked me up.

I chuckled all the way through HC. Maybe I'm just a sick pup.

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this is a very difficult movie to watch or certainly to even contemplate.

This movie is a great big surprise, one of extreme vengeance and really quite horrible at that. Of course, this little Page girl is terrific, but she is quite deliberate and scary in this movie. Frankly ,it was recommended by my son and I do not know whether or not I would recommend it to anyone else.

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