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Heavenly Creatures
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7.0Precocious 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.
Cast
- Melanie Lynskey as Pauline Parker
- Kate Winslet as Juliet Hulme
- Sarah Peirse as Honorah Parker Rieper
- Diana Kent as Hilda Hulme
- Clive Merrison as Dr. Henry Hulme
- Simon O'Connor as Herbert Rieper
Themes
- mother
- obsession
- literature
- christchurch
- based on true story
- love
- friends
- murder
- relationship
- 1950s
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Ratings
IMDb
7.2/10
70,693 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
95%
Metacritic
86/100
- Year
- 1994
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Genres
- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 17 wins & 17 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Peter Jackson
- Written by
- Fran Walsh , Peter Jackson
- Produced by
- Jim Booth , Peter Jackson
- Starring
- Melanie Lynskey Kate Winslet Sarah Peirse Diana Kent Clive Merrison Simon O'Connor
- Cinematography
- Alun Bollinger
- Edited by
- Jamie Selkirk
- Music by
- Peter Dasent
- Production companies
- WingNut Films , Fontana Productions, New Zealand Film Commission
- Distributed by
- Miramax International
- Release date
- 14 October 1994 ( 1994-10-14 )
- Running time
- 99 minutes , 109 minutes ( Director's cut )
- Country
- New Zealand
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $5 million
- Box office
- $5.4 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 108
- FilmAffinity ID
- 632355
- Official website
- www.miramax.com/movie/heavenly-creatures
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- publication date
- 1995-01-12
- title
- Heavenly Creatures
- review score
- 7.2/10
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Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 New Zealand biographical crime drama film directed by Peter Jackson, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his partner, Fran Walsh. It stars Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet in their feature film debuts, with Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison, and Simon O'Connor in supporting roles.
Based on the notorious Parker–Hulme murder case, Heavenly Creatures examines the relationship between two teenage girls—Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme—which culminates in the premeditated killing of Parker's mother. The story's events span the period from the girls' first meeting in 1952 to the carrying out of the crime, which took place in Christchurch, New Zealand on 22 June 1954.