1988 · comedy · dark-comedy · teen
Heathers
Directed by Michael Lehmann1h 43m1988
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.
Our read: Heathers (1988) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive comedy · dark-comedy · teen entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured comedy / dark-comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- funny
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