We wrap up the 1980's by looking at Michael Lehmann's 1988 pop bubble gum suicide film tome Heathers. With a screenplay by Daniel Waters and starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, Heathers is an unlikely black comedy that threw glitter on the glamorous to bemoan a culture that pursued evil in the race to popularity. Dismissed at the time as an insulting anti-John Hughes trash pick, Heathers was the leader in films that started to talk the way teenagers talk and took on serious issues teenagers were eager to think about.

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Works Cited

Heathers - Deep Focus by John Ross Bowie