UW Cinematheque - Special Presentations and New Restorations

Teenager Veronica (Ryder) is having a hard time negotiating high school social life, but most of the pressures she’s facing are created by her “friends,” a trio of mean girls all named Heather. New-to-school J.D. (Slater) becomes Veronica’s boyfriend and offers a solution to alleviate her problems: homicide. This stylish, outrageous, and quotable satire, written by Daniel Waters, remains one of the key cult movies of the late 1980s.