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Heathers
1988
The Westerburg High School has an elite quartet called the 'Heathers' which consists of three girls called Heather and one called Veronica who pick on the weak and less fortunate. One day Veronica becomes tired of the 'Heathers' and goes off with the male school bully Jason Dean and together they plan the demise of the .. Read more
| Starring | Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Kim Walker |
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| Director | Michael Lehmann |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama |
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Heathers
The Westerburg High School has an elite quartet called the 'Heathers' which consists of three girls called Heather and one called Veronica who pick on the weak and less fortunate. One day Veronica becomes tired of the 'Heathers' and goes off with the male school bully Jason Dean and together they plan the demise of the remaining trio.
| Starring | Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Kim Walker, Lisanne Falk |
|---|---|
| Director | Michael Lehmann |
| Studio | ANCHOR BAY ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 38 mins Watch now: 1 hr 39 mins |
| Certificate | DVD: , Watch Online: |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama |
| Language | DVD: English Watch Online: English |
| Released | DVD: 11 Feb 2002 Watch now: 18 Sep 2009 Production year: 1988 |
| Watch now | £2.49 |
| Format | DVD |
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Don't allow the fact that Michael Lehmann directed Hudson Hawk put you off his stunning debut — a prime cult movie about an all-girl high-school clique that terrorises fellow students. Their actions prompt Winona Ryder and Christian Slater (firing on all cylinders like a young Jack Nicholson) to engineer a rash of deaths to break the clique's hold on their schoolmates who are a clueless bunch of college “Swatchdogs” and “Diet Coke-heads”. Beneath the hip, lip-glossed surface of this devastatingly witty black comedy lurks a serious satire on peer-group pretensions and other teen movies. But the message never gets in the way of the snappy dialogue or on-target jabs at the in-crowd lunacy of high-school life.
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A wicked black comedy about teenage suicide and pernicious peer-group pressure, this refreshing parody of high-school... read more on Time Out
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10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Nasty, bitchy, funny and so 'very'
The premise of a teen comedy starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty may seem about as irresistible as a 'Blossom' Reunion Tour, but this is a surprisingly dark and cynical satire that is sharper than anything released since.
The 'Heathers' are a select clique of croquet-playing meanies all called Heather. Winona Ryder's character is desperate to join the group - strange considering she spends most of the film complaining about them - but it's not until she meets Christian Slater's mysterious outsider that she finally decides to use murder as a means of social cleansing.
It's slow to start with, but once Slater and Ryder begin their Bonnie and Clyde-style antics, the true power of 'Heathers' is achieved. It delivers wickedly funny jabs at middle-class students, laid-back parents and fluffy-minded educators; its real target is hypocrisy and self-importance, and even though the high school setting ties it down a bit at the beginning and the end, the film as a whole is brilliantly effective. -
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Slow!
I'm rating this purely on the fact it had one of my favourite actresses in it. Other than that I have nothing good to say about it. So bored by it I fell asleep. Very disappointing.
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Ryder's Heathers set for TV
- 28 Aug 2009
Winona Ryder's cult hit Heathers is lined up for a modern makeover - the film is set to be adapted for the small screen as a series. The 1989 film is set to be made into a TV show 20 years after it originally became an cult classic, and the programme will feature all the original characters - including Ryder's Veronica Sawyer, a popular girl who rebels against her clique of mean girls, all named Heather. Bosses at Lakeshore Entertainment film company, who hold the rights to Heathers, have... Read more
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