Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

misbegotten Some movies have what I call a 'killer premise' - a core concept that's so intriguing and original that it's fool-proof. Any movie built around it is almost certain to entertain.Examples would include SPEED (if a bus goes under 50 mph, a bomb on board will detonate), S.W.A.T. (the police have to transport a mega-rich criminal across town - after he's publicly announced he'll give $100 million to whoever frees him) and PHONE BOOTH (man answers ringing public phone, only to be told he's in a sniper's sights and if he hangs up, he's dead).STEALING CANDY also boasts a killer premise, only in this case it's also dark, twisted, and ever so kinky. Namely, a group of criminals plan to make a fortune by kidnapping a world famous, glamorous, Hollywood movie star. Only they don't intend demanding any ransom - instead they're going to force her to have sex live on the pay-for- view website they've set up. But needless to say, things don't quite go as planned, resulting in some twists and turns that you probably won't see coming.Directed, produced and co-written by Mark L. Lester, who's best known for helming the Arnie action movie COMMANDO, and the sci-fi flick CLASS OF 1999, for most of it's running time STEALING CANDY is effectively a one set play with only four characters, and all of the principle cast deliver solid performances. Daniel Baldwin excels as the group's computer wizard, estranged from his wife & son and only involved in the scheme because his boy needs costly medical treatment. Rapper turned actor Coolio is surprisingly okay as the thuggish, untrusting and violence-prone member of the gang, while Alex McArthur - playing the mastermind - has proved in the past to be a reliable actor, but isn't too impressive here, perhaps because his role is less showy than his co-stars. As abducted movie goddess Candy Taylor (the Candy of the title) relatively unknown actress Jenya Lano is never less than utterly convincing, her stand-out scenes being those in which the gang want her to broadcast a message to her fans via the internet, and she has to immediately switch from terrified hostage to confident and alluring sex symbol.I would highly recommend STEALING CANDY to anyone looking for an intelligent adult movie or a dark, non-mainstream thriller. However, if you watch this film expecting a skin-fest you'll be disappointed. There are only three scenes featuring either nudity or partial nudity, and they're all relatively brief. However, the sequence in which Candy finally has sex on camera is very impressive: it's intense, genuinely erotic and sizzlingly hot. Some would say that it's over too quickly, but I'd disagree: sometimes less is more. It's certainly better than many of the sex scenes that appear in the majority of low budget erotic thrillers and vanilla porn flicks that litter the late night cable schedules.STEALING CANDY went straight to DVD, but considering how fond Hollywood is of recycling tried-and-tested concepts, I won't be surprised if a big budget movie revisits this idea in the next several years, in much the same way that the premise of LIBERTY STANDS STILL was given the studio treatment in PHONE BOOTH. It would be intriguing to see a genuine Hollywood goddess - someone like Nicole Kidman, Scarlet Johannsen or Jessica Alba - in the Candy role. Unlikely? Perhaps. But Meg Ryan shed her clothes a couple of years ago, in an attempt to revive her career with the adult movie IN THE CUT, so anything's possible.

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.

movieman_kev three ex-cons (chubby nerd Danny Baldwin, untalented rapper Coolio, and "Kiss the Girl"'s Alex McArthur hatch a ridiculous scheme to kidnap b-movie starlet Candi (Jenya Leno, who frankly looked much hotter in her memorable guest spot on 'The Shield') Not a bad mover, per say, but the leaps in logic are just too much too sustain it. Furthermore shouldn't the movie be called "Stealing Candi" with an I instead of a Y?? C'mon now.Eye Candy: Jenya Leno shows her ample bosom twiceMy Grade: C+Where I saw it: Showtime

darkstar-8 Real B Movies always have a certain amount of fantasy and credibility within, that's why someone in a network or an indie studio decides to buy rights for TV or video. Actually a lot of folks seem to enjoy this type of flicks because we get millions everyday. Whenever they make profits all of them is a true Mystery that could be used as a Plot for another B Movie, but enough already. Stealing Candy is a movie that desperate needs help, maybe the cast itself could have been better, examples:a) Daniel Baldwin (the fat one) plays a computer "geek" who has a family and a big money problem, his child is dying and needs hospital treatment and his wife is tired of his money schemes that do not deliver money in the endB) The once upon a time rap artist turned actor Coolio (as a gansta type mob robber up to any new plan to make money fast, he is supposed to be the expert in getting into anywhere without being caught)C) the Master mind of the Plan (an actor that probably is famous, who knows. I do not know his name (sorry no offense), who puts the three of them at workThe Plot Kidnap a movie star that also has some problems of her own and make her do a porn movie that will broadcast on the Internet for one night only, on a live transmission that is (remember a Turbulence movie that also does something like this) The resultA mix of comedy (common Coolio acting dramatically is asking too much), drama (the big house of the actress has no security cameras, funny, just a very simple alarm that could have been tempered by an eight year old, of course the *Team* knows how to switch it off just like that, I guess the actress was not really *Famous* after all. anyways what do I know.I keep wondering who to consider this, perhaps comedy, drama, action.? Probably this is what the director understand about filming, mix genres, put a couple of *stars*, and have a good climax, folks will love it, I'm not so sure.Give students more projects like this, probably at least they will learn more in the process and actually make a decent flick someday. This movie has some sense, but doesn't deliver the goods for anyone with a couple of brain cells.