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- 20th Century50s
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- New Zealand
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- Girls' Night
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- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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- Based on True Story
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Heavenly Creatures, 1994
English
UK, Germany, New Zealand
Profile of Heavenly Creatures
The mood of Heavenly Creatures is disturbing, emotional, and stylized. The plot centers around unlikely criminals, teenage love, and best friends. It is a drama, crime, and period movie. Stylistically, Heavenly Creatures is nonlinear, is surreal, and includes a voice over. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is New Zealand. Heavenly Creatures happens in the 1950s. It is originally a true story. The movie is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Heavenly Creatures is especially suggested for a girls' night. Note that it includes profanity and violent content.
Summary of Heavenly Creatures
Heavenly Creatures represented a departure of sorts for horror director Peter Jackson and was the first film to earn him widespread critical acclaim. Jackson both co-wrote and co-produced the picture, which is based on an actual 1954 murder case. The two protagonists, New Zealand schoolgirls Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, first meet when Juliet (Kate Winslet in her silver-screen debut) is introduced to Pauline's class as a new student. Pauline (Melanie Lynskey), an introvert who feels misunderstood by her family and peers, is instantly smitten with the sophisticated and self-confident newcomer, and the girls become best friends.
Eventually, Pauline and Juliet begin spending more and more time together, withdrawing into a magical land of their own invention--Borovnia, a fairy-tale kingdom populated by lifesize clay figures. The girls' distraught families fear that the friendship is becoming unhealthy, and Juliet's parents decide to end things by sending their daughter away. Faced with their impending separation, the girls decide nothing will tear them apart, leading to an unexpectedly grisly denouement made even more unnerving by the ignorance of their own delusion. A harrowing story of misdirected adolescent creativity, Jackson's Heavenly Creatures is chillingly unforgettable.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, Germany, New Zealand |
| Release date: | October 1994 |
| Runtime: | 99 min |
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as Pauline
as Juliet
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