Amazon.com Essentials:
A starkly original film-going experience based on a true life
story, this film from New Zealand director Peter Jackson (Dead Alive, The Frighteners)
is a stirring drama that offers up the unexpected. The story concerns
two girls, outcasts who become best friends, whose bizarre fantasy
life becomes more intense as their bond becomes increasingly more
obsessive. When the mother of one of the girls tries to intervene and
split the girls apart, they kill her and stand trial for murder in
what is to this day still a celebrated and controversial case. Kate
Winslet (Titanic) and
Melanie Lynskey create two sympathetic and yet uncomfortably eerie
characters in riveting portrayals. Featuring some startling and unique
moments of visual brilliance as well as a disturbing love story
between the two girls, Heavenly Creatures is at once both
unsettling and beautiful to behold. --Robert Lane
