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31 March 1989 (USA) morePlot:
A girl who half-heartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
3 wins & 4 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(70 articles)
Heathers Sequel is Wishful Thinking (From TheHDRoom. 3 July 2009, 2:39 PM, PDT)
Heathers Director Baffled By Ryder's Sequel Confirmation
(From WENN. 3 July 2009, 9:06 AM, PDT)
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Best teen comedy ever. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Winona Ryder | ... | Veronica |
 | Christian Slater | ... | J.D. |
 | Shannen Doherty | ... | Heather (Duke) |
 | Lisanne Falk | ... | Heather (McNamara) |
| Kim Walker | ... | Heather (Chandler) |
 | Penelope Milford | ... | Pauline Fleming |
| Glenn Shadix | ... | Father Ripper |
| Lance Fenton | ... | Kurt Kelly |
 | Patrick Labyorteaux | ... | Ram |
 | Jeremy Applegate | ... | Peter Dawson |
| Jon Matthews | ... | Rodney |
| Carrie Lynn | ... | Martha Dunnstock aka Dumptruck |
 | Phill Lewis | ... | Dennis |
| Renée Estevez | ... | Betty Finn (as Reneé Estevez) |
| John Zarchen | ... | Country Club Keith |
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Fatal Game (USA) (working title)Lethal Attraction (USA) (working title)
Westerberg High (USA) (working title)
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103 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Singapore:NC-16 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | South Korea:15 | France:-16 | Canada:18A (Canadian Home Video rating) | UK:15 (re-rating) | Australia:M | Canada:14A | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R (NO. 29338) | West Germany:18Filming Locations:
Corvales High School - 2921 Laurel Canyon Boulevard, Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA moreFun Stuff
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Heather Duke's kitchen in the dream sequence was also the kitchen used for Heather Chandler's house. They just switched the colors and lit it differently. moreGoofs:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Moby Dick does not contain the word "Eskimo", but does contain "Esquimaux". moreQuotes:
J.D.: Football season is over, Veronica. Kurt and Ram had nothing left to offer the school except for date rapes and AIDS jokes. moreSoundtrack:
Que Sera, Sera moreFAQ
Chapter Headings, an unofficial overview version:Where can I find the song "Teenage Suicide (Don't Do It)?"
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Daniel Waters wrote one of the best satires ever in "Heathers", a dark comedy that ranks right up there with "Dr. Strangelove" and "Network". Certainly it's the best teen comedy ever made. Why? Because in spite of its highly stylized depiction of teenagers, it caught the truest essence of what high school is actually like in America. Not only that, it trashed the entire genre and-- in a feat of sheer genius-- even the *reaction* to the genre by outside observers (namely parents). Terry Southern could have done no better.
"Westerburg high school self-destructed not *because* of society but because Westerburg High School *was* society" was restated, to near-universal praise, by Michael Moore in "Bowling For Columbine", but Waters said it before him, said it better, and frankly he's got a lot more credibility ("Hudson Hawk" notwithstanding). The cast is brilliant, even if, strangely, some of them don't seem to get what the whole movie was about. You half expect that most of the cast and crew, like the kids who sign a petition to bring Big Fun to the school for a gig, made a movie they didn't know they were making. But the key figures nailed it-- Ryder and Slater were never better.
"Heathers" is one of the best films of the Eighties-- put the lid on the Eighties, as it were. It has suffered criminal neglect, probably because it may have required an "indie auteur" to really knock the cinematic elements out of the park. The direction is competent but unspectacular. Still, the star is the writing, and Waters deserved an Oscar for this script. Unsentimental, vicious, and above all hilariously funny, he drove a stake through the heart of those oh-so-precious John Hughes films and, at the same time, set the stage for Kevin Williamson and all the rest. He did it with a perfect ear for dialogue combined with a Swiftian vision of social structures, and did it all as an argument *against* ironic detachment, for which this film and its messages needs to be revisited now more than ever. Simply incredible.