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Heaven Help Us

1985

Michael Dinner

Donald Sutherland, John Heard, Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson ...

6.0

159

Comedy. Drama In this coming-of-age comedy set in 1965, Michael Dunn is a recently orphaned Boston teenager who is sent with his younger sister to live with their grandparents in Brooklyn. Once there, he befriends his misfit Catholic school classmates and a reluctant young monk, rebelling and discovering who they are, and often with hilarious results. Michael also falls for Dani, the local hangout owner's tough-as-nails daughter. But the repressive ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune	"There are a couple of potentially interesting movies lurking inside 'Heaven Help Us,' a film that, sadly, doesn`t have the guts to push any one of its elements to the hilt (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[Michael Dinner] and the screenwriter Charles Purpura have an unusually good feeling for the time, the place, the characters as kids and the adults they later turned into"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[The class scenes] are so ugly and depressing that they throw the rest of the movie out of balance. And that's too bad, because here and there in this movie are moments of real insight and memory (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Variety	"Very funny in spots and wonderfully evocative of Brooklyn, circa 1965, pic suffers somewhat by dividing its attention between outrageous pranks and realistic sketches of the Catholic school experience."
		TV Guide	"This film is brimming with poignant, funny, wholly realistic scenes with insight and attention to character. The performances are uniformly excellent."

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