A Night in Heaven

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Audience Member The theme is futility of a teacher student affair. In countries with dominant feminism there are funny naughty discos where the strippers are all men and the customers are all women. Our protagonist is a frustrated wife (Lesley Ann Warren), her husband (Robert Logan), and a young student (Christopher Atkins) in the speech class Warren teaches at the local junior college. As the events unfold, the husband gets fired in job as an engineer at the Kennedy Space Center because he cannot follow directions to work on missiles or other instruments of war. In the midnight that protagonist returns from dancing disco he is apparently too "tired" to sleep with his wife, whose sister takes her to Heaven, a male disco in a shopping center. Incidentally, the handsome young student not a good performer in the class is a dancer there, and in a scene of alluring sensuality , he flirts with her and kisses her. Eventually, the mature loving pair get reinstated to their happy family. The movie runs smoothly beyond the stamp of a comedy or tragedy. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member John G. Avildsen had an interesting career. There are movies like Rocky and three Karate Kid films, along with Save the Tiger, W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, Lean on Me, Neighbors and this 1983 kind sorta coming of age film. Rick Malone (Christopher Atkins) is one of the more popular students at his college and used to getting away with just about everything. However, when he makes a joke of his speech professor Faye Hanlon's (Lesley Ann Warren) final, she fails him and forces him to take the class again. Faye and her husband Whitney are going through a rough patch after he gets laid off, so when her sister suggests that they go to a strip club, she jumps at the opportunity. There, she watches Ricky the Rocket perform and realizes that he's her student. Of course, she's soon going to be cattle-prodding the oyster ditch with the lap rocket, as they say, with Ricky so that he can get his grades up. Of course, this is going to end with Faye's husband shooting at Ricky on a boat dock while demanding that he strip. So, there's that. The movie itself may not be much, but the soundtrack has all sorts of great stuff on it, like Jan Hammer composing much of the music, along with Bryan Adams' "Heaven" and "Obsession" by Holly Knight and Michael Des Barres. That song would be covered a year later by Animotion and become a much bigger song. Deney Terrio, the man who taught Travolta to dance in Saturday Night Fever, the man who hosted Dance Fever, the man who sued Merv Griffith for sexual harassment, the man who sued Hasbro for making a Littlest Pet Shop gecko disco character named Vinnie Terrio is also the man who appears in this film. Also, for those who care about these kinds of things — you know who you are — Atkins has no underwear on for his love scenes. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member On the one hand, director John G. Avildsen is best known for directing intimate character studies that champion zero-heroes, loser subjects who transcend their abandonment to achieve some inner greatness-think here of the titular characters in JOE, ROCKY, and THE KARATE KID. On the other hand, screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury is best known for being the pen behind the ensemble piece NASHVILLE, which centered no single character and followed no particular heroic arc. The combination of these opposed narrative approaches here makes for a disaster, a dismal project that never adds up or pays off apart from the enjoyment of watching a train wreck. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Is any "Ricky the Rocket" out there for me? ^_^ Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Probably one of the only teen flicks to seemingly be tailored towards single moms Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member I only saw a part of this movie and it seemed pretty good. Definitely a good movie to watch when bored. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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