A Night in Heaven (1983)

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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-SEP-2007
Media Type: DVD Product Description

A Forgotten Camp Classic

The premise of this movie is too hoaky to be believed, isn't it? Christopher Atkins, known best as Richard from The Blue Lagoon, makes some smart remark in class and has his teacher fail him. His teacher, Lesley Ann Warren, goes out with some friends to see some male strippers and - surprise! - HE is one of them. Then they have an affair.

I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. Half of me is convinced that this is all just some weird dream and no one actually put this on paper, let alone made a whole movie out of this. The other half of me is disgusted with whoever gave this the go ahead. It's just too hilarious to believe, but it's real. Recommend it? Well, I guess I could. If you're looking for something campy and silly, it's certainly that. Sure, have fun with it. July 5, 2008

A Night In Heaven is a Howl!

When Christopher Atkins bared his all with such abandon in THE BLUE LAGOON, somebody mistook him for The Next Big Thing and made this student-by-day, male-stripper-by-night howler that sent Atkins into instant bimbo oblivion.

"You say what you say well," speech teacher Lesley Ann Warren tells Atkins after he's bluffed his oral finals, "but you have nothing to say." The same goes double for Joan (NASHVILLE) Tewksbury's script, in which Warren runs into Atkins at the Heaven nightclub --- he's billed as "Ricky Rocket" and acts like Luke Skywalker on Extasy --- and she hollers to sister Deborah Rush over the disco din, "I just flunked that kid in my class." To which their pal Alix Elias bellows, "What? You did what in his a--?"

Atkins,natch, rams his groin into Warren's face, prompting Teach to consider those other types of oral exams. (What makes this all the loonier is that ladylike Warren's played her fair share of strippers, plus, here she's married to Robert Logan, who --- twenty years earlier in trash like CLAUDELL INGLISH --- was the wooden, pretty-boy Atkins of his day.) Logan's Cape Kennedy co-worker, erstwhile "Dance Fever" go-go host Denny Terrio, moonlights as a disco instructor. After class, one instructor muses, "Most of the women in this world must be lonely," promping Terrio to nudge him and say, "Good thing, or we'd be dancing with each other."

Meanwhile, poor Warren returns to the club where Atkins disrobes and disrobes and disrobes, while the MC barks, "Buns, buns, hot-cross buns!" But lest we write off Atkins as just another pretty pair of hot-cross buns, he pleads to retake the final exam. Atkin's dreams, see, is to study hotel management, so he can spring waitress mom Carrie Snodgress from behind the counter of a coffee shop! "I'm not grading your mother's life, I'm grading your . . . performance," Warren explains, as she, along with us, suppresses mirth, since by now, we all know that Atkins isn't even remotely capable of anything resembling a performance.

Logan loses his job, providing a convenient plot device for driving Warren into Atkins hands. Well, actually, Atkins puts Warren's hand on his crotch, then strips, and drives her to bliss while she remains fully clothed. Logan comes gunning for Atkins, snarling, "COme on, I want to see you dance!" then holding him hostage on a skiff --- get this, Atkins is naked --- bellowing, "Where do you get off f---ing my wife?"

It all ends anticlimactically as the sadder but wiser marrieds patch things up and put the whole misadventure behind them. Would-be '80s sexpot Atkins didn't have the same option. Trivia buffs may want to note that would-be '90s sexpot Andy Garcia is listed in the credits as "T.J. The Bartender." September 5, 2007

Definitely an 80's film.

i had this on vhs and was looking for it since. i'm glad it came out on dvd...

it's good to have for 80's nostalgia. January 15, 2007

A night on earth

What I liked about this "B" movie is that the characters were so "ordinary."

He: Shallow, not so smart poor boy with not much to offer the world but good looks and lack of sexual inhibitions.

She: Neglected wife, school teacher, female puts down macho student in class.

Student sees opportunity to take her down sexually and does.

Not a nice guy, but how many people are nice? Vulnerable wife, and how many people are vulnerable?

A lot of nice people get hurt by others who are not evil, necessarily but only shallow, and often shallow and bitter.

Husband: A sympathetic character.

Much better than most low-budget and yet non-"art" films. August 22, 2006

A Night in Heaven

I really enjoyed the movie soundtrack and the dancing in the movie. The plot was very interesting too. Over all I think A Night in Heaven was a okay movie. July 1, 2006

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