Hard Candy: Actress Ellen Page (who was only 15 or so when she filmed this) is Hayley Stark, a young girl who meets photographer Jeff Kohlver (Patrick Wilson), who takes pictures of young girls in various states of undress for his portfolio. She meets him online, they meet for coffee, and then she offers to go back to his house to be his latest photographic subject. However, once there, Hayley is revealed to be not nearly the innocent, naïve girl she has pretended to be up to this point. What follows is over an hour and a half of guy’s worst nightmares – drugging, torture, castration, much of which is incredibly uncomfortable to watch. The pacing is also such that you root alternately for the two different people at different times. This film was good, a suspenseful drama that is essentially 2 people in one house, though I will admit it is not for all tastes. Woodchuck sez, “Check it out.”
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