Heavenly Creatures

Heavenly Creatures (1994) is Peter Jackson's psychological drama you can watch online on iFILM. New Zealand, the mid-1950s. Two schoolgirls build an imaginary kingdom and slowly lose the line between it and real life.

Shy, watchful Pauline falls in with Juliet, a sharp-tongued English girl, and their shared love of fantasy and writing turns into a bond neither can let go of. They sculpt a clay realm, trade letters in the voices of invented saints, and dread being kept apart. When the adults decide to separate them, the girls choose a path that ends in tragedy. The film grows out of a real court case that shook the country in 1954.

This was Kate Winslet's first major role, at just eighteen. Jackson made it years before The Lord of the Rings, mixing kitchen-sink detail with wild bursts of imagination, and the screenplay earned an Academy Award nomination. Stream Heavenly Creatures (1994) online on iFILM.