Fresh
Lynskey and Winslet are extraordinary actresses.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Heavenly Creatures
Not all angels are innocent.
1994 · 1h 49m · R
Drama, Fantasy
Directed by
Peter Jackson
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Peter Jackson Director
- Melanie Lynskey as Pauline Parker Rieper
- Kate Winslet as Juliet Hulme
- Sarah Peirse as Honorah Parker Rieper
- Diana Kent as Hilda Hulme
- Clive Merrison as Dr. Henry Hulme
- Simon O'Connor as Herbert Rieper
- Jed Brophy as John / Nicholas
- Peter Elliott as Bill Perry
- Gilbert Goldie Cast
- Geoffrey Heath Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Combines original vision, a drop-dead command of the medium and a successful marriage between a dazzling, kinetic techno-show and a complex, credible portrait of the out-of-control relationship between the crime's two schoolgirl perpetrators.
David Rooney, Variety
Fresh
Unlike the campy excess of Jackson's earlier Dead Alive, deliberate overkill ltimately points toward a dearth of ideas rather than a surfeit.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Acted with conviction, and directed and written with febrile vibrancy.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Stylish and eerily compelling before it overplays its campy excesses, Heavenly Creatures does have a feverish intensity to recommend it.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
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