Heavenly Creatures
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discussed in biography
- In Peter Jackson
…to a real-life incident for Heavenly Creatures (1994), about two teenage girls who kill one girl’s mother; the film starred Kate Winslet in her first major role. Its screenplay garnered Academy Award nominations for Jackson and Frances Walsh, his partner. The mock documentary Forgotten Silver (1995) and the ghost story…
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history of film
- In History of film: Australia, New Zealand, and Canada
…about a 1950s murder case, Heavenly Creatures (1994). He directed one of the most extensive projects in Hollywood’s history, an adaptation of the classic fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings by English author J.R.R. Tolkien. All three parts of Tolkien’s trilogy were shot at the same time in New…
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role of Winslet
- In Kate Winslet: Early films: Heavenly Creatures and Sense and Sensibility
…in director Peter Jackson’s drama Heavenly Creatures (1994). The film, based on the Pauline Parker–Juliet Hulme case in New Zealand, depicted the obsessive fantasy life of two adolescent girls and their eventual murder of Parker’s mother.
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