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A Night in Heaven [DVD]
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| Format | Color, DVD, Widescreen |
| Contributor | Don Cox, Christopher Atkins, John G. Avildsen, Sandra Beall, Alix Elias, Fred Buch, Deborah Rush, Robert Logan, Carrie Snodgress, Joan Tewkesbury, Deney Terrio, Amy Lyndon, Lesley Ann Warren, Karen Margaret Cole See more |
| Language | English |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 23 minutes |
| UPC | 013131309096 |
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Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girls-night out, where she discovers that one of the dancers is her failing student Rick Monroe, a.k.a. "Ricky the Rocket". A heated affair between teacher & student ensues, as Faye struggles to reconcile her emotions and make consequential life choices: Continue her lustful sessions with the studly- but-shallow teen stripper? Or break it off with Ricky & work to salvage her marriage to the loving-but- distant husband?
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Package Dimensions : 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.93 ounces
- Director : John G. Avildsen
- Media Format : Color, DVD, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 23 minutes
- Actors : Christopher Atkins, Lesley Ann Warren, Robert Logan, Deborah Rush, Deney Terrio
- Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
- ASIN : B0007WQH08
- Writers : Joan Tewkesbury
- Best Sellers Rank: #180,997 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #6,793 in Romance (Movies & TV)
- #26,433 in Drama DVDs
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A good addition to any *male stripper* themed library collections as well.
If you never saw the film, go rent it first.
The movie is not the greatest, when judged just on movie traits alone.
But you aren't looking at this movie for a great story line....be honest.
You are looking for a young, fresh, Christopher Atkins in all degrees of naked.
The movie holds up on it's own merit, and is helped by the man-flesh of the supporting cast/extras.
A Night in Heaven (1983) **
D: John G. Avildsen
C: Christopher Atkins, Lesley Ann Warren, Robert Logan, Deney Terrio, Deborah Rush, Sandra Beall, Alix Elias, Carrie Snodgress, Andy García
P: A teacher (Warren), bored with her marriage, has a one night stand with one of her students (Atkins) after discovering that he is moonlighting as a stripper.
Sometimes in order to fully understand a movie, you got to understand the film's history. In 1983, teen films were dominating the market. The film My Tutor, about a French teacher who sleeps with one of her students, was released to great commercial success in March of 1983.
On the surface, A Night in Heaven looks like it has all the right ingredients - a cast of considerable talent, a screenplay by Joan Tewkesbury of Nashville fame and director John G. Avildsen (Rocky, The Karate Kid, Save the Tiger) at the helm.
Watching the film, it seems that the people behind it wanted to make a thoughtful examination into various relationships and how each of those relationships affect one another. However, judging from the film's brief running time and a noticeable absence of key scenes, it seems as though someone at 20th Century Fox got cold feet and had the film hastily re-edited at the last minute in order to make it something more marketable along the lines of My Tutor.
The final product plays up more to the film's erotic elements and the soundtrack. The marketing tried to make it seem like a cross between My Tutor and Saturday Night Fever.
Judging the film in front of me, Lesley Ann Warren turns in a fine performance. The scene in which Warren discovers that Christopher Atkins is moonlighting as the star attraction at a strip club is erotically effective. There are a few sincere moments that come across here and there and the film poses a lot of intriguing notions involving love, fidelity, class conflict, materialism, statements on war, alcoholism and notions involving its a dog eat dog world out there.
There's an interesting juxtaposition involving Atkins who sells his body and, in the process, his soul for money. On the other hand, Warren's husband (played by Robert Logan) quits his job as a prominent engineer, because he doesn't want to help in the production of missiles that could possibly become instruments of war. At the end of the day, he has to be able to look at himself in the mirror.
Atkins, who tried to branch out and do something different, stars as a college student stuck living in a trailer park with his mom. He doesn't want to end up like her, working a dead end job as a waitress at a small town coffee shop. So he uses the one thing he's got, his body, to use anyone and everyone that can help him escape his troubling predicament. In a cruel twist of fate, in which art imitated life, Atkins was used strictly just for his body. Any depth or character development involving his role was left on the editing room floor.
A Night in Heaven asks a lot of questions about humanity and our existence in the world, but most of those questions are left unanswered. Large chunks of the film appear missing. I can easily imagine that this is not the film that the people behind this film intended to make. Sex plays a role in this film, as it does in any adult's life. Whoever edited the final product and/or the suits who were in charge of the film's marketing, couldn't see past the sex. Who knows how this film would have turned out if the people behind it had been allowed to present their initial vision of this film, but I can't imagine it being any worse then the film in front of me. Whether the film had been a hit or a flop in its original form, whether it had been a hit with critics or not, at least it would have been more representative of what everyone set out to initially accomplish. [R] 83 mins.

