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A feverish, psychologically intense drama that turns adolescent fantasy into something beautiful, dangerous, and tragic. It’s especially strong if you like stylized filmmaking, unreliable emotional worlds, and stories about obsession, class, and the terror of being misunderstood.
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Mon · 1h 49m
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse
Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.
Peter Jackson
Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse
A feverish, psychologically intense drama that turns adolescent fantasy into something beautiful, dangerous, and tragic. It’s especially strong if you like stylized filmmaking, unreliable emotional worlds, and stories about obsession, class, and the terror of being misunderstood.
Heavenly Creatures is one of the most distinctive coming-of-age films of the 1990s: lush, feverish, and deeply unsettling. Peter Jackson treats the girls’ shared fantasy life with real wonder, then lets that wonder curdle into something claustrophobic and tragic. The result is both emotionally intimate and horrifying.
Joe (4★) · 2421 likes
Best scene in the movie is when they spend 20 minutes running away in terror from Orson Welles. Real life situations.
Marian (4★) · 1947 likes
kate winslet has been out there doing it for the lesbians for all this time
emma (5★) · 1807 likes
I love vintage homicidal lesbians
dselwyns (4★) · 1753 likes
Teenage girls are just like that
Betty (4★) · 1489 likes
i too would develop an unhealthy obsession with kate winslet to the point of delusion
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obsessive friendship, adolescent desire, female intimacy, fantasy and escapism, psychological deterioration, true crime, class tension, loneliness
psychological drama, coming-of-age, female friendship, obsession, dark fantasy, true story, 1990s cinema, tragic, stylized visuals, new zealand