Three high school girls named Heather run an iron clad social clique at high school. One of their anointees, Veronica, isn’t sure she wants to fit into the clique, particularly when she has to snub some of her old friends at the Heathers’ behest. When Veronica meets the new guy at school, she starts pulling away from the clique, while some of the more popular students start showing up dead with suicide notes.

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Trivia & Facts

* Friends Veronica Sawyer and Betty Finn are named after other fictional friends Veronica and Betty from the comic strip “Archie”, and Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
* The high school is named “Westerburg High”. Winona Ryder’s favorite band at the time was “The Replacements”, whose lead singer is named Paul Westerberg.
* Westerburg High in reality is John Adams Middle School.
* The police officers are named Milner and McCord, after ‘Kent McCord’ and Martin Milner, who played police officers in “Adam-12″ (1968).
* Originally, the book that suicidal students supposedly underline “meaningful” passages from was “The Catcher in the Rye”. The producers could not get clearance to use this book and it was changed to “Moby Dick” instead.
* When Heather Duke gathers signatures for the Big Fun petition, one of the students stamps his name: Dennis Di Novi. This is a reference to the film’s producer, Denise Di Novi.
* Filmed in 32 days.
* The radio call-in show “Hot Probs” featured in the movie is a version of the now nationally famous KROQ radio show “Loveline”, and the radio DJ in the movie is James ‘Poorman’ Trenton, the creator and original host of “Loveline”.
* Veronica’s bedroom was built in the gym of the school they used in the film.
* Heather Duke’s kitchen in the dream sequence was also the kitchen used for Heather Chandler’s house. They just switched the colors and lit it differently.
* The book on the glass table that Heather Chandler fatally smashes through is a copy of Cliff Notes for “The Bell Jar”.
* The role of Heather McNamara, the cheerleader, was originally offered to 17 year old actress Heather Graham. Heather’s parents decided against letting her do the role because of the dark subject matter.
* The hotel imploded on TV in the movie is the Hotel King Cotton in Memphis, Tennessee which was destroyed 29 April 1984.
* The role of Veronica was intended for Jennifer Connelly who turned it down.
* Brad Pitt auditioned for the role of J.D., but was rejected because he was considered “too nice” for the part.
* Ranked at #5 on Entertainment Weekly’s 50 Best High School Movies (2006)
* At the beginning of the film Heather Chandler asks Heather Duke “did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?” The actress who played Heather Chandler, Kim Walker later died of a brain tumor.
* The first day of filming took place on Ash Wednesday and the first scene filmed was the croquet game that took place after J.D. fires his gun in the cafeteria.
* The film’s first scene was actually the last one to be shot. By that time, Lisanne Falk had cut her hair and had to wear a wig.
* Justine Bateman was considered for the lead.
* The name Heather is said 90 times throughout the film.
* The closeups of Veronica’s legs was filmed with a body double.

Quotes: Character

“Watch it Heather, you might be digesting food there.”

“It’s one thing to want someone out of your life, but it’s another thing to serve them a wake-up cup full of liquid drainer. ”

“What is your damage, Heather? ”

“My parents wanted to move me into high school out of the sixth grade, but we decided to chuck the idea because I’d have trouble making friends, blah, blah, blah. Now blah, blah, blah is all I ever do. I use my grand IQ to decide what color lip gloss to wear in the morning and how to hit three keggers before curfew… ”

“[writing in diary] Betty Finn was a true friend and I sold her out for a bunch of Swatch dogs and Diet Coke heads. Killing Heather would be like offing the wicked witch of the west… wait east. West! God! I sound like a fucking psycho. ”

“Dear Diary: Heather told me she teaches people “real life.” She said, real life sucks losers dry. You want to fuck with the eagles, you have to learn to fly. I said, so, you teach people how to spread their wings and fly? She said, yes. I said, you’re beautiful. ”

Quotes: Miss Ryder