A Night in Heaven

A Night in Heaven (1983)

In class, he's just another face in the crowd. In "Heaven", the hottest dance club in town, he's the main attraction.

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?

Date of release
1983-11-18
TMDB
4.5 / 10 (28)
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director
John G. Avildsen

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor

A Night in Heaven is a 1983 American romantic drama film directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Christopher Atkins as college student Rick Monroe and Lesley Ann Warren his professor Faye Hanlon. The film's screenplay was written by Joan Tewkesbury. Film critics widely panned the film, but the film itself became better known for Bryan Adams' chart-topping single "Heaven".

Production

Development on the film began in 1980 at United Artists. The story, which was originally titled Ladies' Night, was conceived by choreographer Deney Terrio and was said to be set in the world of male exotic dancers. In 1981, it was announced Joan Tewkesbury would write the screenplay. As part of her research, Tewkesbury spent time at male strip clubs in Florida.

Filming began on January 19, 1983, in Orlando and Miami and lasted until late March. The film's title was changed from Ladies' Night to Heaven, the name of the club where Rick Monroe (Christopher Atkins) dances, and was eventually titled A Night in Heaven.

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