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Summary: Best movie of the last century !
Review: Peter Jackson is a genius. It's Winslet's best film. Everything is perfect.
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Summary: Great movie
Review: This movie was very good, however it was only interesting the first time I saw it, it is not the kind of movie that you would want to watch a 2nd time. The acting is excellent from both Winslet (Titanic) and Lynskey (Ever After). The movie is rather clean except for some violence at the end and the lesbianism between the two girls. There is one scene that I think was inappropiate between the two, the rest could be interpreted as a strong friendship or lesbianism -- it's pretty much the viewer's choice. I do not reccomend this movie for anyone under 15 years of age!
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Summary: FORGET TITANIC!
Review: After watching Titanic, i wanted to see more of Winslet's works and rented heavenly creatures. Kate Winslet was absolutely stunning in this flick. She does a wonderful job of portraying a beautiful and outgoing upper class teen who befriends Lynsky. This is definitely her best act yet. I also have to give props to Melanie Lynsky who protrayed an odd loner. You guys have to see this flick. It makes you reflect on yourself if you ever had a best friend as a teen. BUt also makes you wonder what can truly lead to their decision to murder. The actresses/actors are brilliant and the cinematography is great. Although I feel that Titanic is a better movie, this is still Winslet's best act yet.
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Summary: Fabulous! See the New Zealand version if you can.
Review: Scroll through the reviews below and you'll see it's nearly unanimous - one of the greatest movies of all time. Riveting, emotionally intense and ultimately horrific. Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey are both fabulous - all the more remarkable since this was the first motion picture for both of them.See the longer New Zealand version - more detail about Dr. Hulme's forced departure from his position; see him "bark" as his family sings "How much is that doggie in the window" and a crestfallen but worldly Juliet dismissing her mother's explanation that she was "just serving tea" to the man in her bed.
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Summary: A Truely Heavenly Film
Review: This film is at the top of my "Favourite Films list". The acting is superb by both main actresses, Melanie Lynsky (Ever After, Detroit Rock City) and Kate Winslet (Titanic). The realistic portryal of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker is breathtaking. The characters' feelings and worries come through with undertones of genius and unrealistic views of the world. All of the supporting actors and actresses are perfect for the parts, and make you feel as if they are in the 1950's. I have seen this film 20+ times, and glean more understanding of the act committed each time. Cruel, lovely, bloody, heavenly.
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Summary: Beautifully drawn true-life story of adolescent obsession
Review: Doesn't everyone remember, somewhere in adolescence, seeing 2 girls, seemingly joined together at the hip, drawing pictures of horses, bursting into gales of hysterical laughter, communicating on a wavelength that only they could understand, and creating a universe that only they could inhabit? Peter Jackson's film of Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme is an exploration of a relationship archetype that has never been so fully realized on the screen. It is a remarkable achievement, none so the less for the controversy that has surrounded it since the identities of the two protagonists has been recently revealed. There has been much controversy and argument over how true the film is to what exactly happened. While all of this is interesting when discussing the case, I ultimately don't think it's very important when discussing the film. For I think the film serves as a much larger canvas: the exploration of the intense emotional attachment that some girls experience in adolescence. I don't think it has ever been done quite the way it has been done in this film. Its marvelous special effects that take us into the world inhabited by these two Heavenly Creatures. Wonderful performances by Kate Winslett and Melanie Lynskey in their film debuts. One of my favorite films of the 1990's.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: This was an interesting film, innovative in a lot of ways. But its innovations didn't always pay off. The use of fantasy characters in the real-life scenes, etc., got tedious after awhile. Kate Winslet is brilliant in this, in every sense. Beautiful, charismatic, talented...it's a great performance...she's almost a female Peter O'Toole, which is the highest compliment I could give any actress. The acting all around is first-rate. But, for me, it took too long to get to the murder, and I would have liked to have seen some of the aftermath, other than just an end-note on the screen. And it isn't as critical as it should be that these two girls commited MURDER. It's given too light a treatment. I think you'd have to have a rather morbid sensibility to rate this 5 stars. And for those morbid among you, the Kate Winslet character, Juliet Hulme, now is a mystery novelist, under the name Anne Perry. So type her name in the search box in the books dept. of Amazon.com, if you want to read the mystery novels of a cold-blooded murderer. She's a millionaire, by the way, because of her books. Some punishment life has doled out to her for having murdered someone....
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Summary: I Keep Thinking About It
Review: I saw this by accident on Bravo in NY, and it is one of the strangest and most disturbing films I've ever seen. I'm afraid I'll never forget the ending. I wish I could. Too real! The acting was terrific, by just about everyone involved, and the special effects were special. I don't know if I can handle seeing it again. I had no idea it was based on a true story until the end. That added to the shock.
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Summary: Amazing and Fantastic
Review: Well this movie is FANTASTIC. Kate winslet gives the best perfomance in her career and Melanie Linskey gives a fantastic perfomance too. The sreenplay is fantastic and it must have won the Oscar for BEST SCREENPLAY.
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Summary: Absolutely the most phenomenal movie ever made!
Review: Ran across this movie by chance at the bookstore. Was simply captivated by the performances of Lynskey and Winslet. How two unkown actresses (at that time) could act with such depth and conviction astounded me. The directing talent of this film is top notch. Lynskey is unforgetable, I've watched this movie several times just to see her magic on the screen. Highly recommend.
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