If we learned one thing from this unsettling '80s movie, it's that the extreme always makes an impression.
. When it first arrived in theaters 35 years ago on March 31, 1989, the few people who saw it didn't entirely know what to make of it. In a period when movies like, a biting satire of teenybopper rom-coms combining teen angst with a body count. The movie is dark and explosive in more ways than one, looking at what it means to become a woman and, more so, one prepared for life after high school.High school is eat or be eaten.
Despite being in different social circles, Veronica and J.D. instantly fall for each other based on their mutual cynicism for the schoolyard status quo. Their romance morphs into something sinister when he takes Veronica's animosity too far, suggesting the world would be better off without the Heathers. When Heather Chandler croaks after guzzling drain cleaner given to her by J.D., the pair leave a note implying death by suicide to conceal their crime.
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