A Night in Heaven is a 1983 romance film directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Christopher Atkins as a college student and Lesley Ann Warren as his professor. The screenplay is written by Joan Tewkesbury. Film critics widely panned the movie. The original music score is composed by Jan Hammer, and features two songs that would later be huge pop hits. "Heaven", re-released in 1985, would become Bryan Adams' first American number one song. An early version of the song "Obsession" by its co-writers, Holly Knight and Michael Des Barres, would also be re-released in 1985, and become the biggest... hit for Animotion. The film also featured the song "Dirty Creature" by New Zealand/Australian group Split Enz. Christopher Atkins plays Rick Monroe, a jock and a popular guy in college in Titusville, Florida; he is outspoken and overconfident. Lesley Ann Warren plays Faye Hanlon, Rick's speech professor; she is prim and proper. At the end of his final report for his class, Rick cracks a joke and Faye is not amused. She decides to fail him and make him take the course over again.
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| Release date: | December 22, 1983 |
| Directed by: | John G. Avildsen |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 83 Minutes |
| Producer: | Gene Kirkwood, Hawk Koch |
| Editor: | John G. Avildsen |
| Music by: | Jan Hammer, Bryan Adams |
| Cinematography: | David L. Qualye |
| Screenplay by: | Joan Tewkesbury |
| Estimated budget: | $12,230,000 |