Stealing Candy
Stealing Candy
| 14 May 2003 (USA)
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Three ex-cons kidnap a famous movie star and force her to film a sex tape live on the internet for a paying audience.

Reviews
Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre
KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Mihai Toma Willing to get rich very fast, three ex-convicts join forces to accomplish the perfect crime: kidnapping a famous movie-star and forcing her to play the main role in a pornographic movie which will be broadcasted live over the internet. They set up an elaborate plan and start executing it but as you might expect, deviations will inevitable occur. Jealousy, pride, hunger for money and self- pleasure might end their plan early. Will they be able to stick to it till the end?Contrary to what you might think, this movie isn't a pornographic one. Except from 2 sequences which together take about two minutes and in which nothing very explicit is shown, it's everything but erotic. It feels cheap from one end to the other but that doesn't necessary make it a bad movie. It has some essence in its story but nothing elevated. You really get to see what people are ready to do for money, but that's about it. Despite its mediocrity, you will be presented with a really unexpected finale. I have to say I wasn't expecting it, by any means.I can't actually recommended it but if you get your hands on it, you might want to take a look, at least for its ending.
mattwaterhouse This film is a porno. Dress it up however you like, it will always be a porno. But its a porno with a sniff of a plot, and while it's about as far fetched as you can get, its still a fair effort. A trio of crooks need money, and to do this they decide to kidnap a Hollywood actress. She doesn't normally do sex scenes, so they film her doing one of them and post it on the internet as pay per view.Daniel Baldwin and Coolio excepted, the acting is frankly laughable. Jenya Lano and the other guy whose name I can't remember are poor to say the least. It's the two guys I mentioned before that turn this movie from "Oh God No" to "Meh, it's OK I guess". Just about worth a rent, so give it a shot if you must. If you're a porno person, this might actually be the jump you need to start watching real movies.
oliver-123 Not a badly acted thriller: unlike other reviewers I didn't think Coolio's acting was so bad, but ... more and more I felt there were these questions raised within the story, often quite important ones, that never got resolved. Not just why, when Brad was disabled, didn't Walt or Candy grab his gun, but - why didn't he become suspicious when the lovemaking between Fred and Candy seemed so intense; why, in fact, was she so easy with it when she claimed to be a prude earlier; how could she be sure that they would all cancel each other out, and the sheriff would shoot Fred. Also, the fact that she was secretly in on the plot was let out too early. Finally, neither she nor anyone else in the film said a word about protection!
aimless-46 "Stealing Candy" is another modest budget crime thriller with a twist at the end. These twists are becoming so obligatory that it is about time one of these movies tried the unexpected and did not include a twist. That would truly be a shocking ending.Whatever budget they had for this did not translate into anything interesting from a production design perspective. A group of friends could have shot this one weekend at their homes. Technically it is a solid production although very little is attempted. The gun play looks realistic enough.Despite having talents as enormous as Pamela Anderson's, Jenya Lano is actually a very good actress. Her scenes in "Stealing Candy" are entertaining. Lano is my all time favorite "Xena" bad girl and now has a fairly regular part on "Charmed". Unfortunately she is only on screen for about a third of the movie. Daniel Baldwin, Coolio, and Alex McArthur seem very awkward with each other.Don't rush out to buy or rent this but it's an OK diversion.