Thanks be to Heathers – a film that helped make me who I am | Hanna Flint

Thirty years ago, Winona Ryder’s character Veronica Sawyer taught me the liberating lesson that you don’t have to conform

Heathers celebrates its 30th anniversary this year – and is getting a rerelease to celebrate the fact. No other high school movie has affected me in quite the same way, nor offered a teenage female character like Veronica Sawyer that I could relate to as much. I didn’t see the film when it first came out; I couldn’t have, it was made in 1988, the same year I was born, so it would be a long while before I got to see Winona Ryder in action. It would be another 14 years before I actually saw the movie, having stumbled across the VHS tape while perusing my parents’ collection and sneakily watching it after school one day.

Related: Michael Lehmann on the legacy of his cult teen film Heathers

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