A Night in Heaven

A Night in Heaven

1983 · 86 min · EN · R · 4.6 (19 votes)
Dir. John G. Avildsen · Starring Christopher Atkins, Lesley Ann Warren, Robert Logan, Deborah Rush, Deney Terrio, Sandra Beall · Music Jan Hammer

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

ComedyDramaRomance

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?

VIBE

A steamy, yet surprisingly thoughtful exploration of repressed desire. It's an awkward, liberating, and ultimately melancholic journey of a woman rediscovering her sensuality amidst forbidden temptation.

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