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telvisnostic

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This is a fantastic flick about suicide and how it impacts people's lives but with a dark comedic edge.
It revolves around Veronica and her 3 friends named Heather.
They are the girls you love to hate and for some want to be.
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This is a fantastic flick about suicide and how it impacts people's lives but with a dark comedic edge.
It revolves around Veronica and her 3 friends named Heather.
They are the girls you love to hate and for some want to be.
Veronica dates the bad boy in the school and things turn out just a bit too wild for her and at the end she has to choose. But what will it be.

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Posted jun 12, 2008 2:02 pm pt

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Interesting, thrilling, funny, sarcastic and a bit realistic movie is definitely one of those amazing movies I'll always remember. It's using the real view of a student and a criminal side of a person to describe the situation. An amazing movie.

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Posted jul 20, 2007 3:47 am pt

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This movie is about a cool girl and her best friends who are a popular group called the "Heathers". But when she meets a dark stranger tragedy is bound to follow. I absolutely looove this movie because even though it was suppose to be...
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This movie is about a cool girl and her best friends who are a popular group called the "Heathers". But when she meets a dark stranger tragedy is bound to follow. I absolutely looove this movie because even though it was suppose to be dark it was funny at the same time. It was one of the greatest 80s movies I have ever seen.

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Posted feb 26, 2007 11:48 am pt

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"Heathers" was one of those cool late 80s movies that never got the recognition it deserved. I thought that the storyline was quite thrilling and the dialogue was sharp and witty.

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Posted feb 26, 2007 7:09 am pt

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A sinister twist on the high school clique scene. When Veronica becomes a Heather, she sells her soul to the group. The only way to retrieve it, is by killing the head Heather. When a new transfer sees how miserable the group is making her, he...
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A sinister twist on the high school clique scene. When Veronica becomes a Heather, she sells her soul to the group. The only way to retrieve it, is by killing the head Heather. When a new transfer sees how miserable the group is making her, he suggests an outrageous solution, that just might work....

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Posted feb 9, 2007 8:08 am pt

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To be popular is every girls dream. Also, no matter how much we all want that it seems that we all also hate the ones that are in control. This movie is must-see for every teen girl in the world. I must admit that I started to love Winona after I...
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To be popular is every girls dream. Also, no matter how much we all want that it seems that we all also hate the ones that are in control. This movie is must-see for every teen girl in the world. I must admit that I started to love Winona after I saw this movie. "There's a new sheriff in town" is my favorite quote for time being.

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Posted jan 30, 2007 1:16 am pt

• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  It's shockingly funny - you don't sit there deciding to laugh. Your own laughter catches you by surprise. [14 Apr 1989]

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  100
  More than just one of the best movies so far this year, it is a revolution in young-adult entertainment.

  by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  100
  Wickedly funny. In fact, Heathers may be the nastiest, cruelest fun you can have without actually having to study law or gird leather products. If movies were food, Heathers would be a cynic's chocolate binge.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  100
  This is an amazing black satire filled with vicious biting words that snap like firecrackers.

  by Brad Laidman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  90
  Daniel Waters' enormously clever screenplay blazes a trail of originality through the dead wood of the teen-comedy genre.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Newsweek
  
  90
  Lehmann isn't in perfect control - the movie gets off to a flat-footed start, and the conclusion is chaotic - but when Heathers hits its stride, it reaches wild and original comic heights. [2 April 1989]

  by David Ansen | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  89
  Director Michael Lehmann made a stunning debut with this sharp satire of teen cliques.

  by Marjorie Baumgarten | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  88
  It's a tough entry into the tough black-comic genre; don't be surprised if it becomes a classic. [31 March 1989]

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  80
  Michael Lehmann’s feature debut introduced the world to Christian Slater at his Jack Nicholson, subversive best and gave Winona Ryder a career-high role.

  by Emma Cochrane | Read Full Review »
• [+] Wall Street Journal
  
  80
  Heathers gave me the creeps but it also made me laugh. This bizarre variation on that Hollywood staple, the teen movie, is one weird original. [30 Mar 1989 p.A12(E)]

  by Julie Salamon | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  The sheer outrageousness of its attitude is enough to make Heathers a very welcome relief in a field dominated by sanctimonious and second-hand virtue. [31 March 1989]

  by Dave Kehr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
  70
  If Michael Lehmann's direction were a bit more astute, the movie could be the classic genre mutation it aims to be: Andy Hardy meets "Badlands." [17 April 1989]

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  70
  As snappy and assured as it is mean-spirited. Its originality extends well beyond the limits of ordinary high school histrionics and into the realm of the genuinely perverse.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  70
  Dark, cynical, but deliciously funny, Heathers is a fascinating look not just at high school but at the way we look at high school.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  63
  What sets Heathers apart from less intelligent teenage movies is that it has a point of view toward this subject matter - a bleak, macabre and bitingly satirical one.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »