A 15-year-old boy with autism was detained and put through a mental evaluation by the NYPD after he told a teacher he identified with the murderous main character of the 1989 film Heathers. Terrence O'Connor, 15, picked the Winona Ryder cult comedy as part of an 2022 assignment where he had to discuss a movie in class at PS 72/The Lexington Academy in Harlem. The film, which also stars Christian Slater as JD, the character O'Connor claimed to identify with, is about four teenage girls who face JD, a misanthropic boy who wants to kill them.
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