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A Night in Heaven
“In class, he's just another face in the crowd. In "Heaven", the hottest dance club in town, he's the main attraction.”
4.5 / 10• 1983• 1h 23m•R• English
ComedyDramaRomance
Storyline
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?
Cast & Crew
Christopher Atkins
Rick
Lead
Lesley Ann Warren
Faye
Robert Logan
Whitney
Deborah Rush
Patsy
Deney Terrio
Tony
Sandra Beall
Slick
Alix Elias
Shirley
Carrie Snodgress
Mrs. Johnson
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. John G. Avildsen's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. A Night in Heaven is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
