Heavenly Creatures
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Movie Reviews of Heavenly Creatures
Movie Review: Splendid true crime tale, with a shocking real "sequel"...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a deeply moving, amazing, and disturbing real story of a horrific murder perpetrated by two teenage girls in New Zealand... and it's no wonder that after making it, Peter Jackson was noticed and given a shot at "Lord of the Rings". It's worth seeing regardless of whether you're interested in LotR. While watching it, though, remember that real life wrote an even more shocking "sequel" to the story: instead of sitting in a prison cell, one of the teenage murderers, Juliet Hulme, is now a bestselling millionaire author of (of all things) murder-mystery novels, writing under the name of "Anne Perry".Movie Review: A film of startling beauty and power
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm really at a loss for words as to how to start this review. I saw it for the first time a few months and it has come up in my thoughts probably once a day. I can say that Peter Jackson's direction was plainly brilliant, surreal and poetic in a way that Lord of the Rings was not. I can say that Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet turn in remarkable performances, generating more screen charisma than maybe any other duo in recent film, rivaled only by The Silence of the Lambs and Titanic. It is funny because it is true, odd because it is real, and tragic because we know it didn't have to happen.Movie Review: brilliant casting and a bizarre true story
Summary: 5 Stars
Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey debuted, I think, in this incredibly creepy true story of two young girls, in 1950s New Zealand, who developed an obsessive friendship involving a fantasy world, Hollywood dreams, and the tragically real murder of one girl's mother. Too young to be tried as adults, they spent practically no time in jail, and one went on to become the writer Anne Perry. How's that for irony? Early work by Peter Jackson, who went on to greater fame with the LOTR trilogy. The two women were perfectly cast; Lynskey even looks a lot like the real Pauline.Movie Review: One of the best films of the nineties
Summary: 5 Stars
Peter Jacksons Heavenly Creatures is one of the most astonishingly original achievements in film in the last ten years, it is both rapturous and inspired in mood and detail, and the script, direction and performances are flawless, no other film-maker has ever caught so vividly the wild and recklessly volatile terrain of adolescence, it is both dark and exhilarating and the final scene is so beautifully executed it is almost unbearable to watch, a remarkable film that gives the genius and insanity of the human imagination full expression, Love it!!Movie Review: First Success for Peter Jackson, Debut for Kate Winslet
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a beautifully directed 1994 movie by Peter Jackson which tells the true story of two teenage girls in New Zealand. This role was Kate Winslet's debut at age 17. She immediately went from this role to receive an Oscar nomination for Sense and Sensibility in 1995, followed by starring roles in Jude and Hamlet in 1996. Then came the bombshell that was Titanic in 1997.
Shortly thereafter, Peter Jackson directed three hugely successful Lord of the Rings movies in 2001-03. This is where it all began for two cinema legends. Don't miss it.