A Night in Heaven

A Night in Heaven

In class, he's just another face in the crowd. In "Heaven", the hottest dance club in town, he's the main attraction.

Directed by John G. Avildsen

Produced by 20th Century Fox

198383 min4.5 / 10

A romantic drama centered on an affair between a frustrated professor and her younger student-stripper, balancing sexual tension with genuine emotional conflict over marriage and desire.

Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girls-night out, where she discovers that one of the dancers is her failing student Rick Monroe, a.k.a. "Ricky the Rocket". A heated affair between teacher & student ensues, as Faye struggles to reconcile her emotions and make consequential life choices: Continue her lustful sessions with the studly-but-shallow teen stripper? Or break it off with Ricky & work to salvage her marriage to the loving-but-distant husband?

Questions people ask

  • Is A Night in Heaven scary? Barely. Less frightening than 76% of films.

  • Is A Night in Heaven violent? Barely. Less violent than 76% of films.

  • Is A Night in Heaven sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Does A Night in Heaven end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is A Night in Heaven easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

14/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity54

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise4

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love4

How much audiences actually like it

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Ensemble

Like A Night in Heaven

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

Same Mood as A Night in Heaven

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like A Night in Heaven, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like A Night in Heaven, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like A Night in Heaven, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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