Touching and funny, and disturbing too.
Added 3/2/2010
"Heaven Help Us" is a story of growing up Catholic in the Brooklyn of the mid-60's. A story of friendship and first love.
As a Catholic - still!- who grew up in the late fifties/early sixties, I have a personal connection with this lovely film. The first time I saw this I was a little offended (as a woman) but then it won me over, and I've since watched it a few times, and in fact given it to my teenage daughter who also loves it. You can read the plot elsewhere, but Andrew McCarthy and Kevin Dillon do wonderful work in this film, as do all the people at St. Basil's, it's a VERY real location and everything about it rang true.
This is a very funny film with a terrific soundtrack. Also Patrick Dempsey is in it, in his younger goofier form.
A little gem, worth checking out!
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Funny as hell, i guess it's really funny if
you grew up going to catholic school .. hehe
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failed to deliver for me
Added 1/30/2010
This is a great movie if you are looking for some laughs and all of the stereotypical Catholic plots in other movies minus, oddly, any sexual deviance on the part of clergy, unless the sadism of the one brother counts.
Although I laughed out loud a few times I thought that the film would serve better as a pilot for a series or miniseries. The characters were too sterotypical and one-dimensional to be believable. And having lived through the catholic educational system, and knowing the good and bad, I felt it did a diservice to the joys of being raised by a community who cared for their students in an eternal manner, which doens't resonate with many these days, but it would have made for a much more interesting film.
And the ending was soooooo blah.
But it is wirth a viewing, if it's free.
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Heaven Help Us
Added 1/17/2010
A very funny movie, and reflects the true experience if you went to Catholic School in the 50's.
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Realistic film about 60s urban teens.
Added 12/29/2009
This film takes place during the mid-60s in Brooklyn, at a fascist-like Catholic school for boys. The kids who attend this school, have to deal with ridiculously strict teachers, who are all church elders. The teachers walk around in long brown robes, and have haircuts like monks. Naturally, the boys find clever ways to rebel against their school's stifling regulations, and are constantly getting into mischief.
Back in the mid-60s corporal punishment was still common in all schools, not just Catholic ones. The difference in this film, is that the teachers try to use Catholic religious values, to justify their harsh punitive treatment of the students. One teacher in particular, is very sadistic whenever he wants to punish his pupils. He locks them in a closet, viciously whips their hands with a wooden paddle, slaps them, pulls their hair, ETC.
When a group of boys vandalize a statue, the sadistic teacher tries to paddle their behinds with a gigantic wooden paddle. This is the last straw for the boys, who are fed-up with being brutally disciplined by this teacher. And they decide to take matters into their own hands. This is a good film overall, about 60s teens. It was very realistic, in showing the life that urban teens led in that era. By showing how barbaric corporal punishment was back then, this movie can make the viewer glad that it's been abolished in schools nowadays.
I can only imagine how many kids who were in school in the 60s, have been psychologically damaged by getting beaten by their teachers. Since they had to cope with this, it's no wonder that most young people growing-up during the 60s, vehemently rebelled against authority.
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Touching and funny, and disturbing too.
Added 3/2/2010
"Heaven Help Us" is a story of growing up Catholic in the Brooklyn of the mid-60's. A story of friendship and first love.
As a Catholic - still!- who grew up in the late fifties/early sixties, I have a personal connection with this lovely film. The first time I saw this I was a little offended (as a woman) but then it won me over, and I've since watched it a few times, and in fact given it to my teenage daughter who also loves it. You can read the plot elsewhere, but Andrew McCarthy and Kevin Dillon do wonderful work in this film, as do all the people at St. Basil's, it's a VERY real location and everything about it rang true.
This is a very funny film with a terrific soundtrack. Also Patrick Dempsey is in it, in his younger goofier form.
A little gem, worth checking out!
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Funny as hell, i guess it's really funny if
you grew up going to catholic school .. hehe
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failed to deliver for me
Added 1/30/2010
This is a great movie if you are looking for some laughs and all of the stereotypical Catholic plots in other movies minus, oddly, any sexual deviance on the part of clergy, unless the sadism of the one brother counts.
Although I laughed out loud a few times I thought that the film would serve better as a pilot for a series or miniseries. The characters were too sterotypical and one-dimensional to be believable. And having lived through the catholic educational system, and knowing the good and bad, I felt it did a diservice to the joys of being raised by a community who cared for their students in an eternal manner, which doens't resonate with many these days, but it would have made for a much more interesting film.
And the ending was soooooo blah.
But it is wirth a viewing, if it's free.
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