Release
Heavenly Creatures had a limited box office success, but performed admirably in various countries, including the United States where it grossed a total of $3,049,135 during its limited run in 57 theaters and $5,438,120 worldwide.
The film has garnered critical praise, and was an Academy Award nominee in 1994 for Best Original Screenplay. It featured in a number of international film festivals, and received very favourable reviews worldwide, including making top ten of the year lists in Time, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The New Zealand Herald.
B. Ruby Rich writes that Heavenly Creatures created an uproar in the United States, during which a reporter discovered that best-selling mystery novelist Anne Perry was the former Juliet Hulme. Rich suggests that Julie Glamuzina and Alison J. Laurie's book Parker and Hulme: A Lesbian View may have been an unacknowledged source of inspiration for Heavenly Creatures, which according to her created a distorted image of the Parker–Hulme murder case.
In 1996, the film was released on videocassette and on Laser Disc at its original runtime of 99 minutes. In 2002 the film received DVD releases in Region 1 in an "uncut version" which ran for 109 minutes. Region 2 and Region 4 released the original 99 minute theatrical version. In 2011, the U.S. online movie services Netflix and HuluPlus began streaming the film in its original 99 minute version.
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