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7.7 stars out of 10 (22 votes)  -  login or register to rate this film

Synopsis

A cat-and-mouse psychotic thriller as incisive as it is stylish, Hard Candy delivers a provocative take on the revenge drama while jangling nerves at every turn. The film plunges us into an unstable universe where we cannot readily identify the "good guy" in the tense confrontation between a 14-year-old girl and the 32-year-old man she suspects of pedophilia and murder.

Film Information

• Genre: Drama / Suspense / Thriller
• Director: David Slade
• Written By: Brian Nelson
• Starring: Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh, Jennifer Holmes, and Gilbert John
• Running Time: 103 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: R for disturbing violent and aberrant sexual content involving a teen, and for language
• Language: English
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Reviews

"A tough sit, but it attracts more than repels you. It commands your attention. Once it lands its hooks in you, there's no tearing away."

   - Eric Campos, Film Threat

"A film that forges identification with its victimized heroine like none I've seen in decades. Page, a Molly Ringwald type who was only 15 when the movie was made, leaves little doubt as to whether a kid can play a grown-up's icky game and win."

   - Rob Nelson, Village Voice

"To pull this kind of thing off you need exceptional performances, and the two leads rise commandingly to the challenge."

   - Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter

"These are two fascinating characters, and watching them thrust and parry proves to be as impossible to turn away from as observing a grotesque roadside accident."

   - James Berardinelli, ReelViews

"Hard Candy, a highly original psychological thriller/revenge fantasy, can be bitterly hard to take and uncomfortably intense, but it's well worth consuming."

   - Mike Clark, USA Today

Showtimes

• Wednesday, May 31st
  7:00 pm, 9:15 pm
• Thursday, June 1st
  9:00 pm
• Friday, June 2nd
  10:00 pm
• Saturday, June 3rd
  4:30 pm, 9:15 pm
• Sunday, June 4th
  4:00 pm, 6:30 pm
• Monday, June 5th
  7:00 pm
• Tuesday, June 6th
  9:00 pm