Wealthy and precocious teenager Juliet (Kate Winslet) transfers from England to Christchurch, New Zealand, with her family, and forms a bond with the quiet, brooding Pauline (Melanie Lynskey) through their shared love of handsome big screen tenor Mario Lanza and games of make believe. But when their parents begin to suspect that their increasingly intense friendship is becoming unhealthy, the girls decide to run away to America, hatching a dark plan for those who threaten to keep them apart.

"Peter Jackson's interpretation of the 1952 New Zealand true crime story is factual but also shows the fantastical world created by misunderstood Juliet and Pauline as their escape from dreary reality, so precious they thought it was worth killing for.” -Lisa (