Wealthy and precocious teenager Juliet transfers from England to New Zealand with her family, and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. When their parents begin to suspect that their increasingly intense and obsessive bond is becoming unhealthy, the girls hatch a dark plan for those who threaten to keep them apart.
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 17 wins & 15 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
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,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Acted with conviction, and directed and written with febrile vibrancy.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
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,
11 Feb 2008
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.