A Night in Heaven
"In class, he's just another face. In Heaven, he's the main attraction."
(1983)
Director: John G. Avildsen
Writer: Joan Tewkesbury
Genre: Male Strippers
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Plot Synopsis:
Community-college student by day/stripper by night Ricky (the Rocket) is just trying to get a passing grade in speech class. Enter Faye, his upright uptight teacher who happens to frequent the strip club that he works at. What's a lad to do? Unfortunately, it's less sleazy than you'd think and I'd hoped.
Favorite Moments:
- A nod to Wargames in the opening scene at NASA ("Would you like access to Computer Games?")
- Bryan Adam's Heaven playing over the opening credits and Animotion's
Obsession at the strip club.
- "How were they sure he was the composer?" "When they opened the casket, he was decomposing."
- Ricky the Rocket in his silver space suit (and briefs!) stripping near the Kennedy Space Center in Flordia.
- The male strip club reminds me of a time that my high school friends hired a male stripper for a birthday party in Spokane. I can't speak for the rest of the girls (we were all under 18), but I spent most of the night blushing furiously, deeply mortified for myself and the moustachioed male dancer jamming his crotch in my face. And I *like* sex. This movie kind of reminds me of that experience.
- Interesting Miami Vice tie-in with Florida, Jan Hammer and Alix Elia.
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