[Movie Script]Heavenly Creatures

HEAVENLY CREATURES

Screenplay by
FRANCES WALSH AND PETER JACKSON



Illustrated by
PAUL HAMLYN



PROLOGUE:



Newsreel footage of Christchurch circa 1954.
EXT. VICTORIA PARK/BUSHY TRACK - LATE AFTERNOON CAMERA CRASHES out of bush and races up a dark bushy track.
CLOSE ON . . . two pairs of feet running up the track, slipping in the mud . . . desperate.
WIDE SHOT . . . reveals TWO GIRLS running up the track, distraught.
JULIET HULME: nearly 16 - tall, blond and willowy,
and
PAULINE RIEPER: 16 - dark-haired, shorter and stockier than Juliet.
It is 1954. Both girls are dressed in overcoats on a chilly winter day. They slip and stumble on the dirt track that winds up the steep Victoria Park hillside. Thick vegetation and overhanging trees give the path a tunnel-like feeling.
CUT TO:



EXT. OCEANLINER'S DECK - DAYBLACK & WHITE . . .


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