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Is Heathers too shocking for 2018?
BBC ^ | 8//03/2018 | Emma Jones

Posted on 08/03/2018 11:07:01 AM PDT by Borges

A toxic love affair, an apparent contagion of suicides at a high school and an attempt by a psychotic teenage villain to blow up the school and kill every pupil in it. Heathers, the 1988 satire starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, was never just about a girl (Veronica) who can’t stand her three best friends (all named Heather).

A critical rather than a box office success at the time, it’s kept its cult status and celebrates its 30th birthday this year with a 4K restoration of the original film. It’s also been made into a successful musical – but would Heathers the movie ever get the go ahead in 2018?

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To: dfwgator

Would have liked to have seen her in Godfather 3. Too bad she dropped out.

While Ryder would not have saved that movie from its weak script, we would have at least been spared the Sofia Coppola train wreck.


41 posted on 08/06/2018 1:23:25 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Point at the Q Tards and Laugh!)
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