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Heaven Help Us

Year:

1985

Duration:

104 min

Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

6.9

Director:

Michael Dinner

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1985-02-08

Filming Locations: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Earnings

Gross: $6,070,794 (USA) Rentals $2,700,000 (USA)

Cast

Actor

Character

Mary Stuart Masterson

Donald Sutherland

Brother Thadeus

John Heard

Brother Timothy

Andrew McCarthy

Michael Dunn

Kevin Dillon

Rooney

Malcolm Danare

Caesar

Jennifer Dundas

Boo (as Jennie Dundas)

Kate Reid

Grandma

Wallace Shawn

Father Abruzzi

Jay Patterson

Brother Constance

George Anders

Brother Augustus

Dana Barron

Janine

John Bentley

First Man

Imogene Bliss

Cook

Philip Bosco

Brother Paul

Donald Breitman

Brother Gregory

Nolan Carley

Bartender

Al Cerullo

Pilot (as Al Cerullo Jr.)

Calvert DeForest

Bridge Operator

Patrick Dempsey

Corbet

Christopher Durang

Priest

William Eustace

Brother William

Henry Fehren

Priest Celebrant

Janice Fuller

Passenger

Pamela Galvin

Sister Thomasina

Stephen Geoffreys

Williams

Richard Hamilton

Grandpa

Jody Jensen

Girl #2

Mary Koch

Cafeteria Lady

Paul Marchand

Perrin

Kachina Myers

Girl #1

Vic Polizos

Police Officer

Douglas Seale

Brother Domenic

Yeardley Smith

Cathleen

Jimmie Ray Weeks

Danni's Father

Mel Winkler

Willie

Ed Zang

Confessor

Craig Austin

High School Student (uncredited)

Victoria Boa

Catholic School Girl (uncredited)

Nancy Cartwright

Girl at Dance (uncredited)

George G. Colucci

High School Student (uncredited)

Kathleen Gati

Catholic School Girl (uncredited)

Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas

Schoolboy (uncredited)

Thomas E. van Dell

Student (uncredited)

Maggie Wagner

Catholic School Girl (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Academy Award Winning Composer James Horner, wrote three complete and unique scores for this film. A lot of it were based on classical adaptations on Handel and his music is barely heard in the final mix of the film and a lot of what he wrote went unused.

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Patrick Dempsey's film debut.

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Most of the score heard in the film was performed by Train to Sligo, an Irish-Traditional band that played in the Los Angeles area in the mid-1980s. The band included singer-songwriter Thom Moore, vocalist/bodhran player Janie Cribbs, guitarist Gerry O'Beirne, penny whistle player Paulette Gershen, fiddler Jerry Macmillan and hammered dulcimer player Judy Gameral.

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Goofs

Though set in 1965, a 1967 Pontiac is visible on the street outside the schoolyard.

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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.

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Quotes

Danni: What the hell are you doing here?

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Brother Timothy: [Dunn and Timothy are in the schoolyard... Tim is bouncing a baseball off the steps] There's the pitch.

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Michael Dunn: If Gram sees you smoking she'll have a heart attack.

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