Heathers |  | Director: Michael Lehmann
Actors: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Rating:  177 reviews
Sales Rank: 71149
Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 103 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 013131067293
EAN: 0013131067293
ASIN: B00000IBRT
Theatrical Release Date: March 31, 1989
Release Date: March 30, 1999
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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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Heathers - 20th High School Reunion Edition
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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 Wicked March 11, 2010
Jim Kames (Fife Scotland)
Wynona Ryder and Christian Slater give breakthrough performances in this wickedly funny satire on high school life. The blue ray trasfer is crisp and clear.
 Dark humor at its best! March 10, 2010
Jill A.
Heathers is a fantastic movie full of wit, wryness, and sarcasm, and yes, twisted humor. The snobby clique (all girls named "Heather", with the exception of not-so-snobby Veronica, played by Winona Ryder) present an exaggerated look at an alpha-female high school group. If you've been a high school girl at any point in time, they're not as over-the-top as it seems. You have Christian Slater playing the bad-ass J.D. in this movie, complete with motorcycle. J.D. convinces Veronica to play pranks on the snobby kids, yet one by one, the pranks end in those kids' deaths and J.D. using Veronica's abilities to forge her friends' handwriting to cover the deaths up as suicides, complete with manufactured suicide notes.
***SPOLIERS AHEAD***
The movie premise is unrealistic on so many levels. Honestly, would the first Heather really drink Drano out of a cup on a dare? I mean, after the first sip, surely she'd spit it out rather than down the whole thing? After that death, would Veronica really go along with J.D.'s plan to set-up the football jocks in the woods? Her character is a smart girl, and yet she's made to look "dumb and in love" as she follows J.D.'s schemes without questioning his motives or intentions? And what's up with J.D.'s dad in this movie? What a weird character to randomly throw in as an attempt to explain why J.D. is so messed up.
But all in all, it's a great film, I love the sarcastic one-liners, the dry humor, the fact that Winona Ryder and Christian Slater look fantastic in this movie... I love that they play strip croquet, and all the 80's fashion is even more fun to watch now that that decade has passed (Swatch watches! Jackets with padded shoulders! Odd color combos!)
Definitely a good movie to add to your collection, but only if you don't take yourself too seriously and have a good appreciation for dark humor.
Heathers is a worthwhile classic March 9, 2010
John S. Lee
Although the movie looks a little dated, Heathers is a quirky fun film full of angst. A great buy for the price.
Review of BluRay only January 12, 2010
Dirk Allen (NE Arkansas, USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Just thought I would provide a quick written review of the BluRay production only of this movie. You either like the movie or you don't.
The BluRay is pretty good quality, sound is solid and picture is very good considering the age of the film. Proably not worth an upgrade if you own the current DVD release, but a good addition to almost any movie collection.
 Overrated December 21, 2009
P.S. Woods (Kansas City, MO United States)
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
I finally caved to the hype and watched "Veronicas" on a slow Sunday night. Wow - I was amazed at how perfectly it failed to live up to every expectation. Smart, well-read people told me that this film is smart; it is typical dopey teen stoner talk smart - "Donnie Darko" smart. The dialog is haltingly false. The hero's motives are beyond unbelievable. Even if the movie had been brilliantly edited (it wasn't) the pacing would still suffer from a poorly constructed story.... I'm sorry - constructed is too strong a word...
The story doesn't cohere because the screenwriter didn't know anything about storytelling. The comedy didn't function for me because the story flatlines after the first staged suicide, with an intolerably long wind down to the third act, which is just the last few minutes of the film. Imagine that there was a third Coen brother - one who was kicked in the head by a horse as a child - that is who made this movie.
"Veronicas" is posited as a dark, thoughtful satire, but its cultural background is lost on me these decades later. Apparently "HEY GUISE TEEN SUICIDE!!!!" was hot topic in 1989, and the mere mention made people feel all weighty and thinky.
I suspect that this movie is so hyped because hip, influential people reviewed it favorably. Maybe the movie is worth preserving as a historical curiosity because, even considering advances in technology, this level of irony is probably not possible to achieve today.
On the positive side, I will recommend a few movies that were doubtless influenced by this inexplicably revered standard:
Mean Girls: a much lighter movie written by SNL's Tina Fey. It looks at the same phenomena in high school society. Unlike "Veronicas", it is a has just a tinge of darkness and is written to well adjusted teens. And most unlike "Veronicas" it actually is funny.
World's Greatest Dad: written and directed by "Bobcat" Goldthwait. It manages all the challenges that "Veronicas" took on and succeeds in every category. It is relentlessly dark, viciously satirical, and painfully hilarious.
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