Heathers Review
A more scathing and trenchant teen movie has rarely been made than Heathers. Packaged and sold as a film about a group of wanna-be Valley Girls, it turned out to be a deadly examination of cliques and teenage vengeance, a black comedy comparable in its own way to Lord of the Flies. Screenwriter Daniel_Waters and writer-director Michael_Lehmann took audiences by surprise with smart, telling dialogue and a diabolical plot. Playing the only member of an Ohio high school's ruling clique not named Heather, Winona_Ryder did much to launch herself into stardom. The film also cemented the bad-girl reputation of TV star Shannen_Doherty and featured Christian_Slater in his first major starring role. Heathers was too dark to be as popular with mass audiences as it was with many viewers and critics. Michael Betzold, Rovi
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