Hard Candy

“Strangers shouldn't talk to little girls.”

Hayley Stark (Elliot Page), a 14-year-old with a hunter's instinct, meets Jeff Kohlver (Patrick Wilson), a photographer, in an online chat room and arranges to meet him in person. She follows him home, studying his apartment and his habits, waiting for proof of what she suspects. David Slade traps both of them in that confined space, and the film becomes a question of what violence is justified against the guilty, or against the believed-guilty.