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Heaven Help Us (1984)
Director: Michael Dinner
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From Time Out Film Guide
A sharply observed rites-of-passage comedy set in Brooklyn in 1965. At St Basil's Catholic School for Boys, the pupils find their growing pains made more painful by the ministrations of stern-faced Brethren, who lecture them on the Seventh Deadliest Sin just before a long-awaited junior prom, and patrol the dance floor ready to disentangle any clinches too close for chastity. Sutherland presides in a perm and a cassock over fellow-monks Heard and Shawn, the schoolboy cast give good-natured performances, and Dinner (his first film) brings sensitivity and freshness to a threadbare theme.Author: SJo
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Dinner
Producer: Dan Wigutow, Mark Carliner
Cast: Donald Sutherland, John Heard, Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon, Wallace Shawn, Kate Reid, Philip Bosco full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 104 mins
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