“The Heathers” is Westerburg High School’s exclusive group of popular females. It consists of the strong Heather Chandler, the ecofriendly Heather Duke, and the timid Heather McNamara. Veronica Sawyer rounds out the foursome, who is frustrated with Heathers as well as the whole peer cooking pot. This is why, she starts to run with J.D, a strange – and maybe crazy – motorbike newcomer. But what starts as a commendable endeavor to cleanse Westerburg of its rotten apples ends up costing them dearly. In this brutally funny dark comedy, their young rebellion results in a serious and growing corpse count.
Heathers (1989): Where to Watch Online?
Heathers is not available to stream on any Streaming Service, however, you can rent or buy it digitally from Amazon Prime Video and Netflix.
Heathers (1989): What Is It About?
Veronica is a member of the most famous group at school, which includes Heather Duke, Heather McNamara, and Heather Chandler. She was tired of Heather Chandler bullying and controlling everyone. And hopes she was killed so she could do whatever she wants vs what Heather Chandler desires.
She then encounters J.D, a gloomy rebel who suggests letting Heather Chandler’s drink drain cleaner to teach her a lesson. Heather Chandler complies, and she dies instantaneously from chemical poisoning. J.D instructs Veronica to draught a suicide letter in Heather Chandler’s writing to cover up the murder.
However, the brutality and bullying continue, as Heather Duke just replaces Heather Chandler as the head. Her demise is viewed as glamorous and cool.
J.D subsequently dupes Veronica into murdering 2 of the football guys tormenting her, Kurt and Ram, and covers it up with yet another suicide letter claiming they were covertly gay.
Veronica is terrified of J.D after realizing that he planned to murder them whereas she only wanted to terrify them. His next plan is to murder Heather Duke, but Veronica is against it, so he intends to burn up the school after everybody else signs a “petition” that is a mass suicide note.
J.D is shot by Veronica, causing him to abandon the device in the classroom and walk outdoors, where he straps the explosives to himself. Veronica observes as he bombs himself up before returning inside to face Heather Duke.
She informs Heather Duke, “There’s a new sheriff in town,” and wanders off to chat to the school geek, implying that she will suddenly be the school’s ruler.
Heathers: The History Behind Its Cult Status
With the advent of the cult hit, Heathers, in 1989, the excessively sweetened picture of high school took a turn, turning normal adolescent comedy components like teenage angst into bloodshed, bad boys into mass murderers, and dinner dates into murders.
One of the key things Heathers encourages us to consider is, “Would you leap from a bridge if everybody did?”. Suicide appears to become something of a trend for the kids just after the suicides of several of the prominent people at Westerburg, and we even witness Heather McNamara acknowledge if everyone commits suicide, she would probably do the same. With the enormous prevalence of social media nowadays, we are more than ever affected by other people.
Heathers encourages us to evaluate the extent to that we are affected by others by taking it to its logical conclusion and making suicide the recent craze at Westerburg High. In doing so, the movie also emphasizes how easily something so serious may become glorified. This, once again, is something that is still happening today, as seen in the 2017 Netflix special 13 Reasons Why. Heathers, on the other hand, does not glorify suicide; rather, it demonstrates how vulnerable kids can be when affected by others – something we should constantly bear in mind. This is an amazing Prime pick.
The Cast
Winona Ryder plays Veronica Sawyer, Christian Slater stars as Jason “J.D.” Dean, Kim Walker as Heather Chandler, Patrick Labyorteauxacts as Ram Sweeney, Patrick Labyorteaux as Ram Sweeney. Watch the film on Amazon Prime Video.
