# Heavenly Creatures

Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 drama film about two girls who have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge. The story was based on the 1954 Parker-Hulme murder.
    Directed by Peter Jackson. Written by Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson.

## Pauline Parker

* She is most unreasonable. Why could not mother die? Dozens of people are dying all the time, thousands, so why not mother? And father too.
* [voiceover, from her diary] We have decided how sad it is for others that they cannot appreciate our genius.
* [narrating] We realized why Deborah and I have such extraordinary telepathy and why people treat us and look at us the way they do. It is because we are MAD. We are both stark raving MAD!
* [from her diary] My new year's resolution is a far more selfish one than last year. It is to make my motto, eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow, you may be dead.
* [narrating] This notion is not a new one but this time it is a definite plan which we intend to carry out. We have worked it out carefully and are both thrilled by the idea. Naturally we feel a trifle nervous, but the pleasure of anticipation is great.
* [narration] The next time I write in this diary, Mother will be dead. How odd... yet how pleasing.
* It's a three act story with a tragic end.

## Juliet Hulme

* Only the best people fight against all obstacles in pursuit of happiness.
* All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic.
* Affairs are much more exciting than marriages. [pause] As Mummy can testify.
* Stick it up your bottom!
* [about the murder of Honora Parker] I think she knows what's going to happen. She doesn't appear to bear us any grudge.

## Dialogue

    [Juliet and Pauline are running screaming up the hill covered in blood, the scene intercuts with black and white scenes of them running across the deck of a ship towards Dr. and Mrs. Hulme]
    Juliet Hulme: Mummy!
    Pauline Parker: Mummy!
    Juliet Hulme: Mummmmy!
    [the scene changes from the ship to the hilltop tea-house. The girls are screaming hysterically as the tea-house woman runs out to see what the noise is all about]
    Pauline Parker: It's Mummy! She's terribly hurt!
    Juliet Hulme: Please! Help us!
    Juliet Hulme: Daddy says the Bible is a load of bunkum.
    Pauline Parker: But we're all going to Heaven.
    Juliet Hulme: I'm not. I'm going to the Fourth World. It's sort of like Heaven, only better, because there aren't any Christians. It's an absolute paradise of music, art and pure enjoyment.
    Pauline Parker: I felt thoroughly depressed and even quite seriously considered committing suicide. Life seemed so much not worth the living and death such an easy way out.
    Honorah Parker Rieper: Love, you can still write to each other.
    Pauline Parker: Anger against Mother boiled up inside me, as it is she who is one of the main obstacles in my path. Suddenly a means of ridding myself of this obstacle occurred to me. If she were to die...
    Dr. Henry Hulme: Mrs. Rieper, may I come in?
    Honorah Parker Rieper: Yes, of course.
    Dr. Henry Hulme: Thank you.
    [They sit in the parlor]
    Dr. Henry Hulme: Your daughter's an imaginative and spirited girl.
    Honorah Parker Rieper: Look, if she's spending too much time at your house, you only need to say. All those nights that she spends over, she assured us that you don't mind.
    Dr. Henry Hulme: It, it's rather more complicated than that. Since Mrs. Hulme and I have returned home, Juliet has been behaving in a rather disturbed manner... surliness, general irritability - most uncharacteristic.
    Herbert Rieper: Sure I can't tempt you to a nice sherry, Dr. Hulme?
    Dr. Henry Hulme: No, thank you. The thing is...
    Honorah Parker Rieper: Yvonne hasn't been herself, either. Locking herself away in her room, endlessly writing.
    Dr. Henry Hulme: My wife and I feel the friendship is... unhealthy.
    Herbert Rieper: No arguments there, Dr. Hulme! All that time inside working on those novels of theirs. They don't get fresh air or exercise!
    Honorah Parker Rieper: I'm not sure what you mean, Dr. Hulme.
    Dr. Henry Hulme: Your daughter appears to have formed a rather unwholesome attachment to Juliet.
    Honorah Parker Rieper: What's she done?
    Dr. Henry Hulme: She hasn't done anything. It's the intensity of the friendship that concerns me. I think we should avert trouble before it starts.

## Taglines

* Not all angels are innocent.
* The true story of a crime that shocked a nation.
* From a secret world no one could see...came a crime no one could believe.

## Cast

* Melanie Lynskey - Pauline Parker
* Kate Winslet - Juliet Hulme
* Sarah Peirse - Honora Parker
* Diana Kent - Hilda Hulme
* Clive Merrison - Dr. Henry Hulme
* Simon O'Connor - Herbert Rieper
* Jed Brophy - John ("Nicholas")
* Peter Elliott - Bill Perry
* Gilbert Goldie - Dr. Bennett
* Elizabeth Moody - Miss Waller

## External links

* Heavenly Creatures quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Heavenly Creatures at Allmovie
* Heavenly Creatures at Mojo
* Heavenly Creatures at Rotten Tomatoes