Heaven

Heaven (1999)

A struggling architect, being sued for divorce by his wife and struggling with booze and gambling, finds work remodeling a friend's strip club, the Paradise. There he meets a transsexual stripper who is bothered by accurate, but extremely violent visions of future events. The increasingly violent visions start including the architect, who doesn't believe in the prophesy. One who does however is a psychiatrist who is seeing both the stripper and the architect and is sleeping with the ex-wife. He uses the prophecies for his own financial gain. Finally the scenes from the vision move into reality amidst many plot turns.

Date de sortie
1999-04-29
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (20)
Durée
1 h 45 min
Genres
Crime, Thriller
Réalisateur
Scott Reynolds

Distribution

Anecdotes

Heaven is a 1998 New Zealand-American psychological thriller film written and directed by Scott Reynolds. The story is based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Chad Taylor.

Production

Heaven was written and directed by Scott Reynolds in his second feature film, following his 1997 horror debut The Ugly. The film's style draws influences from neo-noir and directors like Quentin Tarantino, featuring a non-linear narrative, vivid visuals, and elements of violence.

American financier Miramax allowed Reynolds to shoot the film in New Zealand, making it a rare instance of a New Zealand director shooting a feature film on home soil with international backing. It was Miramax's second investment in a film from the South Pacific area, as in 1995 Miramax had contributed funding for the Australian film Cosi.

Heaven was shot during 1997 in Auckland, New Zealand. American actress Joanna Going, who plays Jennifer Marling, had recently completed another Miramax project, the horror film Phantoms. This film was made in Colorado, and had extensive reshoots, which continued even after Heaven had wrapped production.

Around the production of Heaven, Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein explored producing another New Zealand film project, an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings directed by Peter Jackson. Development began around 1995, but tensions arose, and the project ultimately moved to New Line Cinema in 1998, where it was expanded into a trilogy filmed in New Zealand from 1999 to 2000.

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