Heathers

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week Paul & Amy break down the 1989 dark comedy classic Heathers starring Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty. They talk about how it subverts the high school comedy genre, how relevant it is today and more. Next week you WILL be entertained as we cover Gladiator! You can rent Heathers on all platforms but don't forget to check your local library or apps like Hoopla and Kanopy! You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 1989, and whether to podcast yourself or not is one of the most important decisions a teenager can make.
0:10.2	The movie, Heathers. Hello, everyone, and welcome to
0:33.8	Unspooled.
0:37.3	I am Paul Shear. I am joined by veteran film critic. I call you veteran film critic.
0:45.8	Amy Nicholson. Oh, I've been through the movie Wars. Hi, it's me, Amy Nicholson. Hello.
0:51.1	You've lived through it all. You saw John Carter of Mars and you lived to tell about it.
0:57.2	I did see John Carter of Mars. Wow, I forgot I saw John Carter of Mars. I went through the entire Taylor
1:03.7	Kitch celebrity arc. Oh, I hope he comes back. He had seen. I thought he had something. I liked Taylor Kitch.
1:08.7	I liked him. I mean, look, Taylor Kitch in a different world would be in the movie that we're talking about today, Heather's, which I am so excited to dive into with you and am amazed that in the course of this show, we have never talked about this movie because this movie is a big deal. I mean, it really is like a through line that has
1:30.8	run through a lot of our reviews, whether we're talking about mean girls or election,
1:35.8	which we just re-released last week, the John Hughes World, American Psycho, there's so many
1:42.1	touchstones that this movie kind of runs perfectly
1:45.8	parallel to. So I'm so excited to kind of pull it all together. Maybe we can imagine ourselves
1:51.2	not as cinematic veterans, but as cinematic archaeologists. We've been going through the layers
1:56.7	of sediment waiting for this moment. So let's get into it. The year is 1989, and I want you to imagine a pair of youngsters.
2:04.4	They are the right combination of naive and cynical, and they are getting ready to disrupt
2:09.7	the status quo.
2:10.9	Those youngsters are recent college graduates, Dan Waters, and Michael Lehman.
2:15.4	Dan is a writer. He's from South Bend, Indiana, and he is done with
2:18.6	those uplifting teen movies that are, you know, popularized by John Hughes, the ones that are like,
2:23.9	hey kids, yeah, it's your parents who suck. You're fine. You've got this if you just band together.
2:29.8	I mean, John Hughes films at this point were the touchstone for teens, but he didn't agree with
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