Heathers Isn't Trying to Be a "Responsible" Story About Bullying". TVGuide.com. January 15, 2018 . Retrieved January 16, 2018. Cornnuts, you've been waiting for this one! The highly anticipated live capture of Heathers: The Musical, which will premiere this March in cinemas across the UK and Ireland, will soon be released on DVD and Blu-Ray. The next morning, Veronica and J.D. break into Chandler's house, planning revenge by using a fake hangover cure to make Chandler vomit. J.D. pours drain cleaner into a mug, but Veronica dismisses him, thinking he is making a mean joke. She mixes orange juice and milk together. Veronica accidentally brings the wrong mug to Chandler's room; J.D. notices this but says nothing. He serves Chandler the drain cleaner, killing her. Veronica panics, and J.D. urges her to forge a dramatic suicide note in Chandler's handwriting. The community regards Chandler's apparent suicide as a tragic decision made by a troubled teenager, making her even more worshipped in death than in life. Duke uses the attention surrounding Chandler's death to gain popularity, becoming the clique's new leader. a b Maslin, Janet (March 31, 1989). "Review/Film; When a Not-So-Bad Girl Turns Very, Very Bad". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 26, 2022. Filmed in Los Angeles from February to March of 1988, Heathers premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 1989, before New World Pictures theatrically released the film in the United States on March 31, 1989. It went on to win the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, and for his screenplay, Waters received the Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. [9] It has since become popular and is regarded in polls as one of the greatest coming-of-age films of all time. [10] [11] [12] Heathers has since been adapted into a musical and a television reboot.

Goldberg, Lesley (July 6, 2017). " 'Heathers' Reboot Enlists Selma Blair". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved July 6, 2017. Polowy, Kevin (November 14, 2019). " 'Heathers' writer reveals rejecting 'a pimply' Brad Pitt, alternate endings and the sequel we'll never see". Yahoo!.Goldberg, Lesley (March 16, 2017). " 'Heathers' Reboot, Alicia Silverstone Comedy Switch Networks in Viacom's Paramount Push (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved May 7, 2017. They put no money into marketing the movie because they didn't have any money," says Falk. "And they didn't understand how to market it anyway. They were trying to pitch it as a kind of thriller. In parts of Europe it was called Lethal Attraction. But 10 years later I got the call to do a DVD. And then along came streaming. So the cult aspect has progressed more and more." Hooks 'N' You: Don Dixon, "(If) I'm a Ham, Well You're a Sausage: The Don Dixon Collection" ". Popdose. October 20, 2008 . Retrieved April 23, 2023. Pizzicato Croquet, composer David Newman and director Michael Lehmann discuss the music of Heathers Highhill, Samantha (March 20, 2019). " Riverdale recap: Girls just want to have BIG FUN in Heathers musical episode". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved March 21, 2019.

Oxford Dictionaries (December 5, 2014). "This Word Is Toast: Slang From Cult Films". Slate Magazine. Heathers is a brilliantly quotable cult film, but did you know it is also one of the most frequently cited films in the OED... Bowie, John Ross (2011). Heathers. Berkeley, CA: Soft Skull Press. p.14. ISBN 978-1593764579. I [ Heathers screenwriter Daniel Waters] had most definitely not seen [ Massacre at Central High], but I do remember reading about it in the beloved book Cult Movies by Danny Peary... so I guess it was rattling around somewhere in my subconscious. [Peary's review of Massacre at Central High appears in his Cult Movies 2.]

Buchanan, Kyle (July 2, 2009). "Michael Lehmann Administers Cup of Liquid Drainer to Heathers Sequel". Movieline. Archived from the original on October 2, 2011 . Retrieved May 19, 2017. Hoad, Phil (October 4, 2018). "Double trouble: the hard life of the movie doppelganger". The Guardian. In 2021, Heathers returned for a limited run at the Haymarket with Christina Bennington playing Veronica Sawyer and Jordan Luke Gage as J.D. The three Heathers were played by Jodie Steele (Heather Chandler), Bobbi Little (Heather Duke), and Frances Mayli McCann (Heather McNamara). It then went on to play at The Other Palace where it remains. Shannen Doherty, Original 'Heathers' Star, Confirmed for TV Land Reboot". The Hollywood Reporter. November 22, 2016 . Retrieved April 12, 2017.

This article is about the film. For the musical adaptation, see Heathers: The Musical. For the TV series, see Heathers (TV series). For other uses, see Heather (disambiguation). Zilberman, Alan (March 31, 2014). "Still Very, 25 Years Later: The Bleak Genius of Heathers". The Atlantic.

Waters created a specific set of slang and style of speech for the film, wanting to ensure that the language in the film would have "timeless" quality instead of just reflecting teen slang at the time. [50] The film is among the most cited in the Oxford English Dictionary. [51] Related projects [ edit ] Possible film sequel [ edit ] Connors, Clare (2005). "Heathers, High School and the Conflict Between Democratic Values and Consumer Culture". The Hollywood Youth Narrative and the Family Values Campaign, 1980–1992 (Ph.D. thesis). University of Pittsburgh. p.201. Document No. 3192936 – via ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. Champion, Lindsay. "What's Your Damage?! Heathers: The Musical to Slay Off-Broadway's New World Stages This Spring". Broadway.com . Retrieved December 10, 2013. The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time". Empire. October 3, 2008. Archived from the original on October 26, 2011 . Retrieved May 14, 2017.