Heaven Help Us

1985
R
1h 44m

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6.9/10

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Teen Romance Comedy Drama Romance

A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.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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Trivia
Film debut of actors Kevin Dillon, Patrick Dempsey, Stephen Geoffreys, Yeardley Smith, and Maggie Wagner

Goofs
Though set in 1965, virtually every school bus in the film was manufactured in the late-1970s and early-1980s. Most of them were built on truck cowls that didn't exist at the time, and contained features such as amber flashing lights next to the red ones above the windshield, which didn't exist in New York State until 1973.

Quotes
Rooney: I've been kicked off the track team, and without track my grades will be based on
[pause]
Rooney: my grades.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Heaven Help Us/The Mean Season/The Breakfast Club (1985)

Soundtracks
Hallelujah Chorus
Written by George Frideric Handel (as Georg Friedrich Händel)
Performed by The Roches
Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records

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8/10

I went to Catholic School...

..and I was an altar boy, and went to church every day, and confession..

So watching this the other day brought some of that back to me. There were Brothers in the parish but nuns taught school.

As some other comments have suggested, this movie is unimaginable without Kevin Dillon. He's riotous, from beginning to end. He's given all the good lines and makes the most of them. You barely hear Patrick Dempsey's voice at all.

I was and am not an Andrew McCarthy fan, but he's very tolerable in this. Its the lead but the less showy part. His scenes with Mary Stuart Masterson don't exactly jump off the screen, but they are adequate to the movie.

Movie also gets some points from me for the Elvis references. The guys go to an Elvis movie after seeing the Pope (and get in trouble for it), plus the King is heard over the credits at the end. 8/10.