Heathers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Heathers |
| Original title | Heathers |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Lehmann |
| script | Daniel Waters |
| production | Denise Di Novi |
| music | David Newman |
| camera | Francis Kenny |
| cut | Norman Hollyn |
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Heathers (Alternative title Lethal Attraction ) is a black comedy from the year 1988 with Winona Ryder , Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty . The film was director Michael Lehmann's debut feature film ( lies have long legs , 40 days and 40 nights ).
action
At the US American high school Westerburg High , social life is determined by a girl clique consisting of three beautiful and wealthy girls, all of whom go by the name Heather (plural "Heathers"), and the somewhat introverted Veronica. While the three Heathers enjoy their role as the leading “elite” and use their position to harass other students, Veronica feels increasingly uncomfortable in the company of the trio and secretly sympathizes with their victims, although she does not have the strength to deal with her friends break.
When she met rebellious daredevil Jason “J. D. “Meeting Dean, who recently joined her school from Kansas, believes that Veronica has discovered a way to escape the high school social system. Soon the two begin - as Veronica says "for fun" and "just in thought" - to draft plans on how one could get rid of the three Heathers by murder.
Heather Chandler dies when Veronica hands her an "anti-hangover drink" after a night of partying, unaware that the emetic she added to the drink gave her "friend" a lesson for a rough rebuff in the past Night, has been replaced unnoticed by JD with a drink full of pipe cleaners and other chemicals mixed together in an identical beaker. In order to cover up the crime, the two forge - using Veronica's talent to be able to credibly imitate every handwriting - a suicide note that makes the girl's death look like suicide.
A few days later, JD moves Veronica to help him, "wipe one out" of two football players who have battered Veronica's reputation by launching "experience reports" about Veronica's sexual "activity": Once again, J. D's alleged prank proves to be a fatal one Lie. The alleged trick ammunition with which the two boys are supposed to be frightened turns out to be live ammunition. In order to cover up the double murder, Veronica and J.D. again leave a forged suicide note, which gives the impression that the dead had a homosexual relationship and killed themselves for their “predisposition” due to a lack of understanding from the outside world.
Veronica gets increasingly guilty about her complicity in J. D's actions and tells him that she will not participate in any more "pranks" / murders. When the latter refuses to accept a "no" and insists on her further help - he threatens to kill her if she refuses - Veronica fakes a suicide by hanging. Assuming he lost her, he tells of his plan to destroy the high school with a large explosion during a concert.
The next morning, Veronica follows J. D. to the boiler room, where J. D. is preparing a bomb. There is an exchange of fire between them. Veronica shoots J. D's middle finger, forcing him to deactivate the bomb. J. D. escapes outside, where he blows himself up with an explosive belt.
Veronica is walking the high school hallways in a daze and starts a conversation with an unpopular student.
Reviews
- The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "a pitch-black teenage grotesque with satirical swipes at the American picture-book youth". He vacillates "ultimately undecided between satire and thriller".
- The film was included in the volume of 101 Cult Movies To Watch Before Life Is Over .
Awards
Heathers competed at the 1989 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. In 1990, director Michael Lehmann and producer Denise Di Novi received the Independent Spirit Award for the best debut film.
Series continuation
Sony Pictures Television began developing a series for the American television network Fox in 2009 . Jenny Bicks was the executive producer. After Fox waived a series order, the American cable television station Bravo announced in September 2012 that it was developing a pilot episode. On the show, Veronica would have moved back to Sherwood with her teenage daughters, where they would meet the Ashleys, the daughters of the surviving Heathers.
In August 2013 it was announced that Bravo had stopped developing the series.
Web links
- Heathers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heather atrotten tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Heathers in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed December 2, 2007
- ↑ Steven Jay Schneider (H.): 101 films cult films that you should see before life is over. Zurich 2009 page 297
- ↑ Kate Aurthur: The Dream Of The “Heathers” TV Show Is Dead Again. BuzzFeed , August 7, 2013, accessed August 8, 2013 .