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Watch: Heathers 1988 123movies, Full Movie Online – A regular girl, Veronica, tries to survive the social jungle of high school by sticking with the three most popular girls at school who are all called Heather. As she meets a sociopath named JD, her life spirals into a continuous cycle of hate, unintentional murder and indifference, as she exacts revenge on her enemies, also known as her best friends..
Plot: 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.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 105,087
	93% | RottenTomatoes
	72/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1378 Popularity: 17.833 | TMDB

Reviews:

This movie is a high school satire done absolutely amazingly. It’s everything current high school dramas wish they were. It’s dark, funny, but does not lose any of its meaning to stupid jokes. It perfectly shows the hell that is high school (and society as a whole). Just like in high school, there are Marthas and Heathers everywhere in life.

J.D. is a great villain, because even though from his very introduction, we know he’s a messed up person who does bad things, yet you start to empathize with him just like Veronica. It shows that, as a society, we go to great lengths to defend white men and their actions.

Heathers is furthermore also obviously a critique on the social hierarchies that exist in the world. It shows this on a smaller scale, high school. As J.D. nicely sums up towards the end of the movie: “.. because high school IS society”. The Heathers rule the school and this movie really shows as to why that is. It’s a system, that puts certain people at the top, like Heathers, and other _Martha’s_ at the bottom. Murdering Heather Chandler might seem like a way to disrupt this hierarchy, and restore society to a pure form, but that is not the case. Heather Chandler does not equal her power, that’s just a role she filled in the bigger system around them. Her being gone doesn’t remove that role, it just passes it on to the next best fit.

In this movie, colors play a significant role. Heather Chandler being red represents anger and her dominance. Heather McNamara being yellow represents her kind soul, but also her weakness. Heather Duke’s green represents her jealousy of Chandler. Veronica’s signature color is blue which represents intelligence, but after having murdered Heather Chandler she wears a purple outfit. As you may know, blue and red make purple. I see this as Heather Chandlers ‘evilness’ affecting Veronica as well. Veronica might think she’s rid the world of evil, yet she’s simply become evil herself.

RELEASED IN 1989 and directed by Michael Lehmann, “Heathers” stars Winona Ryder as Veronica, a high school student in Ohio who has sold herself out to join the popular clique of three girls, all coincidently named Heather (Kim Walker, Lisanne Falk & Shannen Doherty). The more she spends time with them, however, the more she discovers she can’t stand them. Enter mysterious new kid, JD (Christian Slater), who has a macabre solution to Veronica’s conundrum.

This is an oddball teen movie that tries to be edgy and amusing with its black humor and overt cussing. Future movies were influenced by it, like “Jawbreaker” (1999) and maybe even “Mean Girls” (2004). The commentary on peer pressure, teen suicide and the maiming destructiveness of cliques is potent. Teens can be misled by the “popular” students, yes, but they can also be misled by the outcasts.

Slater stands out as a sorta dark Fonz of the late 80s, easily one of his best roles ever. Ryder is surprisingly good as the protagonist. I say “surprisingly” because I was never big on her (although I didn’t dislike her either). The first act is quite good, but the story gets humdrum in the middle; thankfully, the last 20 minutes perk up. The late 80’s ambiance is to die for.

I’m not going to give it away, but the original ending was way more morbid. They had an alternative ending that they didn’t go with either. Apparently the studio pressured the writer/director to go with the theatrical ending, which I approve. It’s a story of redemption. Being misled by corrupt people for a season doesn’t define a person forever.

THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hours & 43 minutes and was shot in Los Angeles (the high school) and surrounding area (Santa Monica, Tujunga and Pasadena). WRITER: Daniel Waters.

GRADE: B-/C+

Best teen comedy ever.
Daniel Waters wrote one of the best satires ever in “Heathers”, a dark comedy that ranks right up there with “Dr. Strangelove” and “Network”. Certainly it’s the best teen comedy ever made. Why? Because in spite of its highly stylized depiction of teenagers, it caught the truest essence of what high school is actually like in America. Not only that, it trashed the entire genre and– in a feat of sheer genius– even the *reaction* to the genre by outside observers (namely parents). Terry Southern could have done no better.

“Westerburg high school self-destructed not *because* of society but because Westerburg High School *was* society” was restated, to near-universal praise, by Michael Moore in “Bowling For Columbine”, but Waters said it before him, said it better, and frankly he’s got a lot more credibility (“Hudson Hawk” notwithstanding). The cast is brilliant, even if, strangely, some of them don’t seem to get what the whole movie was about. You half expect that most of the cast and crew, like the kids who sign a petition to bring Big Fun to the school for a gig, made a movie they didn’t know they were making. But the key figures nailed it– Ryder and Slater were never better.

“Heathers” is one of the best films of the Eighties– put the lid on the Eighties, as it were. It has suffered criminal neglect, probably because it may have required an “indie auteur” to really knock the cinematic elements out of the park. The direction is competent but unspectacular. Still, the star is the writing, and Waters deserved an Oscar for this script. Unsentimental, vicious, and above all hilariously funny, he drove a stake through the heart of those oh-so-precious John Hughes films and, at the same time, set the stage for Kevin Williamson and all the rest. He did it with a perfect ear for dialogue combined with a Swiftian vision of social structures, and did it all as an argument *against* ironic detachment, for which this film and its messages needs to be revisited now more than ever. Simply incredible.

Thought Provoking …
… It provoked me into thinking I was watching an off beat TVM ! Well apart from the F word cropping up every five minutes , but everything else reminded me of the dreaded phrase ” Made for television ” . HEATHERS is lit and shot like a TVM , the incidental music resembles that of THE EQUALIZER and the film even features TVM queen Shannen Doherty in a major role.

Being a black comedy I wasn`t keen on the script either . Strangely if HEATHERS was made in 1991 or 1992 when grunge was kicking in big time it would have been a more cynical and nihilistic and therefore more sucessfull but to set it around the Debbie Gibson / ripped jeans era seems anachronistic . That said I did find it amusing that the two anti heroes were worried about going to jail since they were played by Wyona Rider and Christian Slater . Yup sometimes life can`t help imitating art

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 3000000
Revenue 1108462
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Crime
Director Michael Lehmann
Writer Daniel Waters
Actors Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty
Country United States
Awards 3 wins & 11 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35 BL4, Zeiss Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA, Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length 2,812 m (Finland), 2,824 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 125T 5247, 250D 5297, Fuji AX 500T 8514)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm