Okay, "A Night in Heaven". It has big name stars in it like Warren, Garcia (in a bit part), Snodgress, Atkins, Deney Terrio (you wondered what happened to him, here he is.) - good director in Avildsen (!!!!!) - decent writer (Joan Tewkesbury; I'm serious, look for yourself!). So, why is it you haven't heard of this film unless you caught it at 3 or 4 am on Showtime?
Well, I'll tell ya.
Seems college teacher Warren (yeah, that's right) is flunking student Atkins, who happens to dance at this male strip bar called The Odyssey, where Warren's friends happen to drag her one night, whereupon she notices him - this being a weak moment in her life, as she and her husband (Logan) are having marital problems, and she thinks Atkins is rather hunky as he prances around in his g-string, and she begins to have some un-teacher-like thoughts about him, while her husband is considering having an affair while....
But I forget the most important part of the whole movie: with all these plot points to mull over, this thing STILL clocks in at under 90 minutes! WHAT the.... It is mind-boggling that so much plot can be truncated in to so little of a movie, and I mean that not only in substance but in IQ points as well.
Warren is the only one here worth watching (as is usually the case), and as an actor, Atkins is a good dancer. But if the main part of a movie you remember is the end theme (Bryan Adams' "Heaven"), you not only have a bad movie on your hands, but a bad movie that no amount of re-casting, plot-padding, double-billing or sex scenes can make enlightening.
"A Night in Heaven", huh? Gee, I was thinking more the opposite....
One star, for Bryan Adams' music. Hope they didn't make him watch it while he sung, or he WOULD have found it hard to believe he was in "Heaven".
Well, I'll tell ya.
Seems college teacher Warren (yeah, that's right) is flunking student Atkins, who happens to dance at this male strip bar called The Odyssey, where Warren's friends happen to drag her one night, whereupon she notices him - this being a weak moment in her life, as she and her husband (Logan) are having marital problems, and she thinks Atkins is rather hunky as he prances around in his g-string, and she begins to have some un-teacher-like thoughts about him, while her husband is considering having an affair while....
But I forget the most important part of the whole movie: with all these plot points to mull over, this thing STILL clocks in at under 90 minutes! WHAT the.... It is mind-boggling that so much plot can be truncated in to so little of a movie, and I mean that not only in substance but in IQ points as well.
Warren is the only one here worth watching (as is usually the case), and as an actor, Atkins is a good dancer. But if the main part of a movie you remember is the end theme (Bryan Adams' "Heaven"), you not only have a bad movie on your hands, but a bad movie that no amount of re-casting, plot-padding, double-billing or sex scenes can make enlightening.
"A Night in Heaven", huh? Gee, I was thinking more the opposite....
One star, for Bryan Adams' music. Hope they didn't make him watch it while he sung, or he WOULD have found it hard to believe he was in "Heaven".