Daily Movie Rec 5/5/2023

Heathers (1988)

"Hey now, if you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host."

Directed by: Michael Lehmann

Cinematography by: Francis Kenny

Country: United States

Genre: Comedy/Crime/Drama

Plot:

Two disaffected yuppie teenagers decide their lives and school would be better without the cruel, domineering popular girl, leading to a slippery slope of knocking off the school’s top dogs and framing it as a rash of suicides.

Reasons to watch:

With ace performances from Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, this mischievous satire delivers a clever, subversive, darkly funny script that signaled the growing disillusionment among American youth in the late 80s in the face of exponential commercialization and the fetid, hypocritical core of individual exceptionalism - the type of disillusionment that would soon make grunge one of the most popular music genres in the world.

Where to watch:

Shudder/Tubi/Prime Video