In Hard Candy, Patrick Wilson plays Jeff a photographer who meets a smart 14 year old girl, Hayley (Ellen Page) in an internet chat room and sets up a date.
They seem to share a similar taste in music such as Goldfrapp, Coldplay and both seem to be Anglophiles, Monty Python are name checked for example as well as British pop groups.
Jeff is intoxicated when he meets the precocious Hayley and soon takes her to his apartment which is decorated of photos of young models. Hayley mixes some alcoholic drinks and Jeff wakes up tied to a chair as the seemingly underage girl is not what he thinks she is.
Ellen is looking for the abductor of her friend and has been stalking Jeff for a while with cat and mouse games and confronts Jeff directly with his peadophilia.
Wilson plays an almost early 30s nice guy but lurking inside him is a monster. He is so plausible and nice when he is interested only in deflowering underage girls and maybe even worse.
Page has the hard act of playing an innocent girl and tough avenger who wants to unmask Jeff, show him his true self and find out what happened to her friend. The film is intriguing, interesting, uncomfortable and tense. Some parts might be over the top but its a film that should not be ignored.
They seem to share a similar taste in music such as Goldfrapp, Coldplay and both seem to be Anglophiles, Monty Python are name checked for example as well as British pop groups.
Jeff is intoxicated when he meets the precocious Hayley and soon takes her to his apartment which is decorated of photos of young models. Hayley mixes some alcoholic drinks and Jeff wakes up tied to a chair as the seemingly underage girl is not what he thinks she is.
Ellen is looking for the abductor of her friend and has been stalking Jeff for a while with cat and mouse games and confronts Jeff directly with his peadophilia.
Wilson plays an almost early 30s nice guy but lurking inside him is a monster. He is so plausible and nice when he is interested only in deflowering underage girls and maybe even worse.
Page has the hard act of playing an innocent girl and tough avenger who wants to unmask Jeff, show him his true self and find out what happened to her friend. The film is intriguing, interesting, uncomfortable and tense. Some parts might be over the top but its a film that should not be ignored.