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Release Date
• USA: Nov 16, 1994
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 1, 2000
• R2: 2 Aug 2004
Budget $5,000,000
MPAA Rating
Rated R for violence and sexual content. (uncut version)
Running Time
1 hour, 39 minutes
Country UK, Germany, New Zealand
Studio Fontana Films, Miramax, New Zealand Film Commission, WingNut Films
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Other Titles
• Heavenly Creatures
• Heavenly Creatures: The Uncut Version (1994)
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Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Thriller, Romance, Drama, Murder, Teenage, True Story, Gay/Lesbian, Disturbing, Coming Of Age, Psychodrama, Christmas, Doctor, Melodrama, Marriage, Surreal, Infidelity, Fantasy
Tagline: The true story of a crime that shocked a nation.
Plot: HEAVENLY CREATURES represented a departure of sorts for horror director Peter Jackson and was the first film to earn him widespread critical acclaim. Jackson both co-wrote and co-produced the picture, which is based on an actual 1954 murder case. The two protagonists, New Zealand schoolgirls Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, first meet when Juliet (Kate Winslet in her silver-screen debut) is introduced to Pauline’s class as a new student. Pauline (Melanie Lynskey), an introvert who feels misunderstood by her family and peers, is instantly smitten with the sophisticated and self-confident newcomer, and the girls become best friends. Eventually, Pauline and Juliet begin spending more and more time together, withdrawing into a magical land of their own invention--Borovnia, a fairy-tale kingdom populated by lifesize clay figures. The girls’ distraught families fear that the friendship is becoming unhealthy, and Juliet’s parents decide to end things by sending their daughter away. Faced with their impending separation, the girls decide nothing will tear them apart, leading to an unexpectedly grisly denouement made even more unnerving by the ignorance of their own delusion. A harrowing story of misdirected adolescent creativity, Jackson's HEAVENLY CREATURES is chillingly
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 The movie's few moments of graphic violence are perfectly balanced by both scenes of raw emotional truth and ocassional sequences of wild, wonderfully escapist fantasy--a wonderland the likes of which I've never before witnessed.  --Jack Witzig (ColdSpot)
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Frances Walsh
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 | Kate Winslet
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