Fresh
Heathers locates the emotional totalitarianism lurking in a prom queen's heart.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Heathers
Best friends, social trends and occasional murder.
1988 · 1h 43m · R
Comedy, Crime
Directed by
Michael Lehmann
Overview
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
Director and cast
- Michael Lehmann Director
- Winona Ryder as Veronica Sawyer
- Christian Slater as J.D.
- Shannen Doherty as Heather Duke
- Lisanne Falk as Heather McNamara
- Kim Walker as Heather Chandler
- Penelope Milford as Pauline Fleming
- Glenn Shadix as Vater Ripper
- Lance Fenton as Kurt Kelly
- Jennifer Rhodes Cast
- Jeremy Applegate Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A super-smart black comedy about high school politics and teenage suicide that showcases a host of promising young talents.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Two decades later, Heathers is so on the money, with its vague but unmistakable parallels to several school shootings, that it could never be made today.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
A super-smart black comedy about high school politics and teenage suicide that showcases a host of promising young talents.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Rotten
Its inanities and glib pretensions are so thick that it mainly comes across as tacky and contrived.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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