Hollywood can be a cruel place where one can go from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the barrel in a heart beat. John G. Avildsen is a good example. He directed Jack Lemmon in his Academy Award winner performance in Save The Tiger and the first Rocky film and then he became infamous for directing John Belushi's last film neighbors and THEN this lowbrow film about male strippers. Christopher Atkins had achieved pop stardom in 1980 with The Blue Lagoon where he starred with Brooke Shields. According to all accounts he is a good guy but made it more on looks then talent. He plays a big feeling college student who moonlights as a male stripper and has a torrid fling with his much older teacher played by Lesley Ann Warren. They are definitely an unlikely couple and despite a few steamy scenes you don't believe two people like this would ever connect. I disliked Atkin's character and my favorite part was where he got his comeuppance at the hands of her outraged husband after he found out about said affair.
Review of A Night in Heaven
