Your email is not valid
Recipient's email is not valid
Submit Close

Your email has been sent.

Click here to send another

The Scroll

No. 53: Heathers

Fast Times at Westerberg High

By Jody Rosen|December 6, 2011|1comment
Print Email
No. 52: Rififi → ← No. 54: Green Fields (Grine Felder)

1989, dir. Michael Lehmann. The high-school movie got a deliciously pitch-black overhaul in Michael Lehmann’s 1989 comedy, which spiced up the usual jocks-nerds-and-popular girls formula by tossing in murders, suicides, gay-football-player-murder-suicide-pacts, and Christian Slater’s eerily-perfect Jack Nicholson drawl. At the center is Winona Ryder (née Horowitz), in the role that made her an icon. It’s a classic morality play, a story of temptation, seduction, and redemption: Ryder’s Veronica Sawyer is a brainy brunette (read: Jewess) who succumbs to, and then turns against, the malevolent Heathers (i.e., shiksa goddesses) who rule Westerberg High.
No. 52: Rififi → ← No. 54: Green Fields (Grine Felder)
  • http://www.marjorieingall.com marjorie

    Crazy about this movie, and I’ll give you tons of leeway in general on labeling particular movies Jewy (X-Men? fine) but I’m not getting the Jewy here.

Thank You!

Thank you for subscribing to the Tablet Magazine Daily Digest.
Please tell us about you.

No. 53: Heathers

Fast Times at Westerberg High