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8 de feb. de 1985 · Heaven Help Us: Directed by Michael Dinner. With Donald Sutherland, John Heard, Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson. A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Michael Dinner
- 1985-02-08
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In 1965, Boston teenager Michael Dunn and his young sister Boo have been sent to Brooklyn to live with their Irish-Catholic grandparents following the deaths of their parents. Dunn is enrolled at St. Basil's, a strict all-boys Catholic school. His grandmother is determined to see him fulfill his parents' dream of him joining the priesthood. Dunn be...
Development
The story was originally written in 1978 as a masters thesis by Charles Purpura, a student at NYU, who had attended Catholic boys' schools. An NYU teacher showed the script, then titled Catholic Boys, to producer Dan Wigutow, who tried unsuccessfully to interest production companies in it. Purpura dropped out of NYU and was fired from his job at a lithography shop for union organizing. He was denied unemployment benefits because his nighttime screenwriting was considered potentially lucrative...
Casting
Dinner said "I came into this very idealistically, wanting to discover eight brand new faces who could play 16 and 17 year olds. But it didn't work out that way." He spent four months looking for actors around the country, including Boston and Philadelphia, but ended up casting them all out of New York via their agents. "What happens here is that you stumble on kids with some stage experience who also seem natural as New York kids. What happens in Los Angeles is that even the good ones come o...
Filming
Filming took nine weeks. The Church of St. Michael (built 1921) and the (now closed) St. Michael's Parish School were used as the fictional St. Basil's Church and St. Basil's School, run by the factual Order of St. Basil. Filming used external and internal shots of this church and school, and around the neighborhood. An auditorium scene was filmed using students from Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx. John Heardlater claimed an incident on the film led to him being unofficially black...
The film was originally shot as Catholic Boys, but due to HBO and Tri-Star's fears of alienating viewers, the title was changed to Heaven Help Us.In European territories and in Australia, the film was released theatrically under its original title. To make the film more upbeat, there were changes made to a plot involving a disenchanted teacher, and...
The film received mixed reviews and was not a commercial success. In a review that awarded the film two and ½ stars, Roger Ebert expressed that while he found some scenes were funny and contain “moments of real insight and memory,” he found the tone to be inconsistent. Janet Maslin of The New York Timeswas more positive, writing the filmmakers “hav...
Heaven Help Us at IMDbHeaven Help Us at AllMovieHeaven Help Us at Rotten TomatoesHeaven Help Us at Box Office MojoQue el cielo nos ayude ahora. Heaven help us now. Ven a estrellarte. Come crashing down. Escucharemos el sonido. We'll hear the sound. A medida que te estás cayendo. As you're falling down. Estoy en este viejo hotel.
Heaven Help Us (also known as Catholic Boys in some places). 1985 film starring Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon, Donald Sutherland, Wallace Shawn, Stephen Geoffreys, John...
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Heaven Help Us 1985 Donald Sutherland Andrew McCarthy Comedy Drama HD Hollywood English Free Movies. During a period of great social upheaval, rebellious teenagers struggle with the...
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Heaven Help Us - Película 1985 - Cine.com. 18+ · 1985 · Comedia/Adolescentes · 1 h. 44 m. Sinopsis. Nueva York, 1965. En el colegio católico San Basilio los alumnos reciben una férrea disciplina, que incluso llega a los castigos físicos.
Curso del 65 es una película dirigida por Michael Dinner con Donald Sutherland, John Heard, Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson .... Año: 1985. Título original: Heaven Help Us. Sinopsis: Nueva York, 1965. En el colegio católico San Basilio los alumnos reciben una férrea disciplina, que incluso llega a los castigos físicos.
