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Heathers (THX Version) 
Actors : Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker
Director : Michael Lehmann
Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
by Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date : 2001-09-25
Publisher : Starz / Anchor Bay
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 0013131140590
UPC : 013131140590
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 142 reviews)
List Price : $14.98
Our Price : $6.80
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This dark comedy from 1989 was a good showcase for Winona Ryder, playing a high school girl brought into a clique of bitchy classmates (all named Heather), and Christian Slater, doing his early Jack Nicholson thing. While Ryder's character mulls over the consequences of giving up one set of friends for another, her association with a new boy (Slater) in school turns out to have deadly consequences. Director Michael Lehmann turned this unusual film into something more than another teen-death flick. There is real wit and sharp satire afoot, and the very fusion of horror and comedy is provocative in itself. Heathers remains a kind of benchmark in contemporary cinema for bringing surreal intelligence into Hollywood films. --Tom Keogh |
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Welcome to Westerburg High, where Veronica Sawyer (Winona Ryder) is beginning to tire of her membership in the powerful yet cruel clique of 'Heathers' When Veronica falls for the mysterious new kid Jason Dean (Christian Slater), their dislike for the Heathers quickly escalates into a savage cycle of murder, suicide and Slushies. Now that her teenage angst has a body count, are Veronica and JD headed for the prom...or hell? Shannen Doherty co-stars in one of the greatest black comedies of all time, newly remastered and better than ever! What's your damage? This is HEATHERS like you've never seen or heard it before! Includes a 4 Page Collector's Booklet |
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Still freaks me out! |
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Heathers starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater is pretty creepy even to this day. I like this dark comedy and boy it is dark to say the least. Slater tends to over-do-it, I think he was trying to channel Jack Nicholson or something but Ryder really nails this film frame by frame. Look for a young Shannen Doherty pre-90210 days. This film deals with teen suicide in a somewhat comical way, you have to see Heathers if you are one of those girls stuck in a clique, enjoy! |
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Funny! |
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This isn't an overly good movie, but still a nice comedy to watch if nothing good is on the tube. |
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They wouldn't make this film today. |
J.D. (Christian Slater), a rebellious student, shows up at Westerberg High, a school dominated by a bitchy clique of girls, all called Heather. With the unwilling assistance of his girlfriend, Veronica (Winona Ryder), J.D. starts murdering the school bullies and making the murders look like suicide, but as one bully vanishes, another just rises up to take its place.
To say that "Heathers" is unique would be wrong, as it is essentially a remake of a little known 1970's movie, "Massacre at Central High" (although "Heathers" is by far the superior film), and I found "Ginger Snaps" to be very similar in style and tone (some people have compared "Mean Girls" with "Heathers", but "Heathers" is far darker and make "Mean Girls" look like a romantic comedy in comparison). However, there are very few teenage movies that show the dark side of adolescence with this much humour and accuracy. Not that that surprises me. Could you really imagine anyone financing a movie now where the film's protagonist brings a gun to school in order to scare the school jocks?
"Heathers" is a well written, well directed film, with all of the actors in top form. I am a big fan of Christian Slater and will watch just about anything that he is in, but this is by far my favourite of all of his films. Slater is always at his best when he is playing a character that is not entirely balanced and the character of J.D. is Slater at his most psychotic. "Heathers" is one of those rare films where the more times I watch it, the more I love it. As I said before, it is "different", so some viewers might not like it at first because of this (the first time I saw it, when I was 14, I didn't really like it). However, it is a film worth sticking with, because it really does have a lot to say and it truly deserves to be considered a cult classic.
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"I love my dead gay son!" |
Post-Columbine, it's doubtful that a dark comedy about a trenchcoat wearing maladjust who takes it upon himself to rid his high school of jock bullies and mean, popular girls could ever be made. Which is a shame, because "Heathers" is even more relevant now than it was back in 1989.
This is not the typical '80's teen movie Cinderella story about an awkward, unpopular kid who somehow wins the affections of an attractive person way out of their league. Nor does it glorify violence as a solution to problems. It's a hilarious and unsparing look at the high school social hierarchy, well-meaning but out-of-touch adults, and how the news media drools like a dirty old man anytime the flame of youth is extinguished in an especially appaling manner. Anyone who remembers their own wonder years as being less than wonderful should be able to relate.
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