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Hard Candy
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2867
- IMDb #2169
- Google retired #3225
- Rotten Tomatoes #2255
- Metacritic #2946
- Letterboxd #2205
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2927
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1928
- Metacritic Critics #2658
- Metacritic Audience #3373
- Criticker #1607
- Douban #1114
- Kinopoisk #2992
- AlloCiné #2583
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 50, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A 14-year-old girl meets a 32-year-old photographer she met online at a coffee shop. They go back to his modern home. The situation dramatically reverses as the confident girl reveals a sinister agenda, turning the tables on the man and subjecting him to a intense psychological and physical interrogation over his suspected activities.
Details
- Director
- David Slade
- Writer
- Brian Nelson
- Studio
- Vulcan Productions
- Released
- 14 April 2006
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $950.0K
- Box office
- $7.0M
- Awards
- 8 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
Awards & nominations
See all 13 →8 wins from 13 nominations across 12 ceremonies
| Best Female Newcomer 2007 | — | Elliot Page | Nominee |
| Best Actress 2006 | — | Elliot Page | Winner |
| Best Breakthrough Performance 2006 | — | Elliot Page | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography 2006 | — | Jo Willems | Winner |
| Best Director 2006 | — | David Slade | Winner |
| Best Film 2006 | — | Hard Candy | Winner |
| Best Foreign Independent Film 2006 | — | Hard Candy | Nominee |
| Best Thriller 2006 | — | Hard Candy trailer | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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13 awards — Hard Candy
×| — | Hard Candy | Winner |
| — | David Slade | Winner |
| — | Elliot Page | Winner |
| — | Jo Willems | Winner |
| — | David Slade | Winner |
| — | David Slade | Winner |
| — | Brian Nelson | Winner |
| — | Hard Candy | Winner |
| — | Elliot Page | Nominee |
| — | Elliot Page | Nominee |
| — | Hard Candy | Nominee |
| — | Hard Candy trailer | Nominee |
| — | Hard Candy trailer | Nominee |