Fun (film)
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Fun is a 1994 drama film starring Alicia Witt and Renée Humphrey, in roles that earned them both a Special Jury Recognition for Technical Acting at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival. The film centres on the murder of an elderly woman by two mentally unstable girls. It received high critical praise, but failed to be a box office success.
[edit] Plot
Bonnie, aged 14, (Humphrey) and Hillary, aged 15, (Witt) are two young lost souls who meet one day and discover that they get along. They talk about their lives and run around and keep getting really excited. Their day escalates into an eruption of violence and rage that can only be understood by the two girls, until they brutally stab an elderly woman. They later say it was purely just for "fun", which is where the film's title originated. The story moves from the juvenile detention centre where the girls are kept, to the girls on the day of the killing.
[edit] Similar films
Peter Jackson's highly acclaimed film Heavenly Creatures released the same year as Fun, is a very similar film, it centres on two girls' obsession with each other, and how the friendship escalated into the murder of the mother of one of the girls. Neither of the films copied one another, as Heavenly Creature's plot is based on a true story that occurred in New Zealand in the 1950s. Thirteen also features a similar plot, revolving around two girls' dangerous relationship with each other.
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