In 'Hard Candy', a seemingly innocent 14-year-old girl named Hayley Stark meets a successful photographer, Jeff Kohlver, in an Internet chat room and arranges a meeting. What initially appears to be a trap set by the older man turns into a psychological game of cat-and-mouse, with Hayley mercilessly executing her calculated plan of revenge.
A 14-year-old girl seeks revenge on a pedophile.
David Slade films a fourteen-year-old's revenge on a photographer who thought he was the predator. The film is a chamber piece; the revenge is patient.