Heavenly Creatures

Based on the true story of the notorious Parker–Hulme murder case, Heavenly Creatures is a poignant and powerful biographical crime drama that examines the complex and ultimately tragic relationship between two teenage girls, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme. In 1950s Christchurch, New Zealand, these two young women form an intense and obsessive bond over their shared love of fantasy and literature, gradually developing into a deep and all-consuming friendship. As their relationship intensifies, it becomes increasingly entangled with violent fantasies and eventually culminates in the premeditated killing of Pauline's mother, marking a devastating turning point in the lives of these two young girls forever bound by their extraordinary and ultimately doomed friendship.