Heathers (1989).
It’s doubtful that the dark comedy
Heathers, with its shocking violence and politically incorrect teen-speak, would likely ever be made today—at least not by a major studio. But the biting 1989 satire was widely embraced by film critics and its (initially tiny) audience.
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Heathers was written by a video store clerk.
Daniel Waters moved to Los Angeles during the 1980s and was working at what he described as “the least cool video store" in Silver Lake when he wrote
Heathers. In 2008, Waters insisted to The Hollywood Interview blog that he was working on the whole video store clerk-to-screenwriter metamorphosis "before I knew it was a cliché."