Rotten
Personally, I'd rather have this movie obliterated from my memory.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Hard Candy
Strangers shouldn't talk to little girls.
2005 · 1h 44m · R
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
David Slade
Overview
Hayley’s a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff’s a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff’s place. Jeff thinks it’s his lucky night. He’s in for a surprise.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
67%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Packaged in an increasingly lurid, credibility-free storyline, delivered with unstinting insensitivity by a first-time director determined to show off his ad-man's box of visual tics.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Fresh
It's well worth seeing, because it is well made -- apart from a few gaps in logic -- and well acted.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
... a film that gives you something to think about, raising questions that linger long after the theater lights have brightened.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Rotten
Hard Candy is an exploitation film, with very little happening but a guy getting tortured for about 75 minutes of screen time.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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