27 May 2006, by Webmaster
BRITISH COMMERCIALS DIRECTOR DAVID Slade never doubted that his debut feature, Hard Candy, would make an impact. "A number of times people asked, ’Is this going to work?’ and I said, ’Is this going to work? This is going to be like a f***ing, huge, nail bomb going off in some areas’," recalls Slade. He wasn’t wrong.
When Hard Candy premiered at Sundance last year it became what one reporter described as the "word-of-mouth don’t-see buzz movie". People were leaving the theatres distressed, (...)