HEAVENLY CREATURES (1994)

Pauline (Melanie Lynskey), a loner, is befriended by Juliet (Kate Winslet) at school.  Juliet who is in need of friendship and belongingness finds Pauline to be the perfect friend. The two of them create a new fantasy world of which the often write and talk about.  They spend every possible moment together, and they acknowledge that they are need each others company.  Their parents become growingly concerned about their friendship when it stretched the moral borders.  Heavenly Creatures is a dark film based on a true story that depicts the troubles of coming to age when the notion does not conform to popular beliefs.

DIRECTED BY

Peter Jackson

COUNTRY

New Zealand

REVIEWED
10/13/2002
GRADE


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