Heavenly Creatures

Heavenly Creatures

1994 · 109 min · EN · R · 7.0 (1,075 votes)
Dir. Peter Jackson · Starring Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison, Simon O'Connor · Music Peter Dasent

“Not all angels are innocent.”

DramaFantasy

Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.

VIBE

Dive into a vibrant, unsettling world where intense friendship blossoms into dangerous obsession. This film is a visually rich, psychologically charged journey through youthful fantasy and the tragic consequences of an unbreakable, all-consuming bond, feeling both dreamlike and starkly real.

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