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Hard Candy Updated: Apr 30, 2008 Genre: Thriller Duration: 1 hr. 43 min Director: David Slade Starring: Ellen Page, Patrick Wilson, Sandra Oh, Jennifer Holmes, Gilbert John Cinema Show Times

Review: An amazingly astounding story about a smart, charming teenage girl, Hayley, who perhaps should not be going to a local coffee shop to meet Jeff, a 30-something fashion photographer she met on the Internet. But Hayley is ready to have fun, and soon she is mixing screwdrivers at Jeff's place and stripping for a spur-of-the-moment photo shoot.
As the evening's dubious activities take a particularly squalid pitch and the raptorial Jeff appears hovering to strike, a sudden turn of events finds that his perceptible victim has had a plan of her own from the very start. Like getting Jeff to confess to his proclivity for teenage girls, and also to what he did to Donna Mauer, the girl who disappeared from Jeff's favourite coffee shop. When Jeff wakes up, he is tied to a chair. If he does not collaborate, Hayley has something to help him down, a little surgical process that she picked up on the Internet. All she wants is an ice pack and a knife..!!

MPAA Rating: R for disturbing violent and aberrant sexual content involving a teen, and for language.

Review by: Arsala Ajmal