As dark satire goes, Heathers is in a league all its own. Easily dismissed as a teen angst flick, its depths are much darker and deeper.
Heathers is about how easily you can fall and still think you’re standing.
- “You were nothing before you met me. You were playing Barbies with Betty Finn. You were a Bluebird. You were a Brownie. You were a Girl Scout Cookie.”~Heather Chandler
This sinister comedy spotlights issues of bullying, teen suicide, and the dangers of peer pressure.
Underlying theme? How completely self-absorbed people can be. How spoiled and narcissistic. Where they see their own world and issues, but have no wider vision of how other people are feeling, or suffering, or what they need.
Slater and Ryder are beyond compare and repair.
Severe, jagged, funny, pathetic, edgy.
Hard to believe it’s been 25 years.
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I grew up with this movie. Fucking awesome and so different from all the other high school movies of the time. And now really!
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This is a great I loved this show for years! Winona Ryder and Christian Slater make this movie such a great one. Teens in high school have all kinds of problems, and these two help make it all worse…..
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There was a tv show?
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They were developing one, but its now dead on the developing room floor. I’m glad, nothing could live up to the original.
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That’s a good thing. Nobody could replace Ryder or Slater, they gave those characters life.
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I LOVE this movie! Still a huge a Ryder and Slater fan 🙂
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Me too. So different for its time. Still so amazing.
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This is a really good movie 🙂 I think Mean Girls kinda developed from this, my daughter really liked Mean Girls so I bought her Heathers and she was like — wow!
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Yes, I think Tina Fey may have watched heathers a few times. I liked Mean Girls too, just not the same as Heathers. 🙂
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Both different but good viewing 😉
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Different, but great. 🙂
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Do you watch Homeland or Ripper Street? Both superb. The actress who plays Carrie in Homeland is perfect, she is amazing.
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Yes, both are great. Claire Danes is amazing and I like Damien Lewis too.
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Fabulous 😉
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I loved this movie when it came out, watch it every chance I get, and I honestly think this movie gets better every time I watch it!!
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It’s funny how some films are like that. I sometimes feel like I find new things each time. 🙂
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25 years! Holy cow! I feel very old. Still I love this movie. 🙂 I hear that I look like Wynona. Or used to.
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That’s cool. I can see that. 🙂
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But not “Edward Scissorhands” Wynonna. 🙂 blonde doesn’t suit me unfortunately
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lol
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