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This film has a lot going for it, great styling, clever idea, nice piece of social commentary and a good cast. What makes the film work and makes the film special is the chemistry of Ryder and Slater. They capture something on screen that expands throughout the movie making the whole thing seem so 'real' because you can believe they have such an energetic connection to each other. Slater (in my opinion) has found it hard to equal or best this movie throughout his career, not because of a lack of ability or role selection (although he has selected some real crap), but because he came out swinging for the fences with Heathers and hit the sweet spot. This film should not be forgotten.

Heathers is a memorable movie. I remembered watching Heathers, at a party, during my first year of university. Every one loved Heathers, but I thought heathers was kind of strange/over the top! On second viewing I see the satire, but suicides', and school violence has became more real life and not fiction anymore so Heather.s loses it's humor. Teenage angst about school life, being liked and accepted fuels the movie. The viewer sees popularity is a lot of work, phony, and conniving! In the end of Heathers the message is popularity is just not worth it, as I found out personally. The mother explains social games perfectly fit in with being human and as an adult the games just march on!. Sometimes even worse! Heathers was acted and directed in a off beat way. Heathers well I give 7 stars.

"Heathers" delights in shocking viewers with un-PC humor; that's fine, yet the picture is a mess from a filmmaker's stand-point, and Daniel Waters' script takes a dive with twenty minutes left to go. This is a movie that never goes in any particular direction, so Waters left himself an 'out': he could end it anywhere he wanted and figure he was safe. However the acting by leads Winona Ryder and Christian Slater (as high schoolers who murder members of the popular clique) is so strong that the audience is let down by where the writing takes them. This screenplay could be something conjured up in a high school writing class. It has pungent, dead-on scenes of satire and fantasy, but it flags too early and just doesn't have the smarts to realize that--in the end--it's dealing with characters who have become recognizable to us, and throwing them a cartoon bone is as insulting as a croquet ball to the forehead. ** from ****

from the moment it begins with the three heathers playing croquet, you know that you will be in for an odd, cruel, and un-john hughes alike teen film. It's black as coal, and as sour as lemons. Although Christian Slater is jack nicholson with a facelift, it's still the most memorable performance in the movie. And winona ryder is also appealing as the lost and complex veronica. Some fantastically witty lines, humurously sick set pieces, and some truly great/cack 80's music make this a classic, more of a classic cult movie.

Unlike many of the teen movies that have enjoyed enduring appeal, "Heathers" survives not due to nostalgia, but because of its intelligence and searing, midnight-black wit. Winona Ryder is Veronica, the disillusioned popular girl who falls in with a dangerous loner - Christian Slater as the malefic J.D. The two attempt to right their high school's social wrongs and end up on a killing spree. Released on the cusp of the 1980s, the film feels strikingly prescient and more disturbing than ever today.

I like the bit where they thought they were gay because they liked mineral water