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''Heaven Help Us'' is a 1985 American drama film directed by Creator/MichaelDinner, which follows a group of misfit teenagers (Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, Creator/MaryStuartMasterson, Creator/KevinDillon, Creator/MalcolmDanare, Creator/PatrickDempsey, and StephenGeoffreys) and teachers (Creator/JayPatterson, Creator/WallaceShawn, Creator/JohnHeard, and Creator/DonaldSutherland) at a Catholic all-male preparatory school. Set in 1965, the teens clash with some of the faculty members, experience first love and come of age.
Michael Dunn ([=McCarthy=]) is a new transfer student to St. Basil's in Brooklyn. He befriends the bespectacled Caesar (Danare) and reluctantly bonds with Rooney (Dillon), an underachieving prankster, and his friends. He finds himself drawn to Danni (Masterson), a troubled girl who helps run the soda fountain across the street from the school. Dunn and his friends find themselves in conflict with some of the repressive teachers, resulting in school hijinks and misadventures.
Michael Dunn ([=McCarthy=]) is a new transfer student to St. Basil's in Brooklyn. He befriends the bespectacled Caesar (Danare) and reluctantly bonds with Rooney (Dillon), an underachieving prankster, and his friends. He finds himself drawn to Danni (Masterson), a troubled girl who helps run the soda fountain across the street from the school. Dunn and his friends find themselves in conflict with some of the repressive teachers, resulting in school hijinks and misadventures.
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''Heaven Help Us'' is a 1985 American drama film directed by Creator/MichaelDinner, which follows a group of misfit teenagers (Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, Creator/MaryStuartMasterson, Creator/KevinDillon, Creator/MalcolmDanare, Creator/PatrickDempsey, and StephenGeoffreys) and teachers (Creator/JayPatterson, Creator/WallaceShawn, Creator/JohnHeard, and Creator/DonaldSutherland) at a Catholic all-male preparatory school. Set school in 1965, 1965. During the film, the teens clash with some of the faculty members, experience first love and come of age.
Michael Dunn ([=McCarthy=]) is a new transfer student to St. Basil's in Brooklyn. He befriends the bespectacled Caesar (Danare) and reluctantly bonds with Rooney (Dillon), an underachieving prankster, and his friends. He also finds himself drawn to Danni (Masterson), a troubled girl who helps run the soda fountain across the street from the school.Dunn and his friends find Finding themselves in conflict with some of the their repressive teachers, resulting Dunn and his friends get involved in various school hijinks and misadventures.
Michael Dunn ([=McCarthy=]) is a new transfer student to St. Basil's in Brooklyn. He befriends the bespectacled Caesar (Danare) and reluctantly bonds with Rooney (Dillon), an underachieving prankster, and his friends. He also finds himself drawn to Danni (Masterson), a troubled girl who helps run the soda fountain across the street from the school.
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''Heaven Help Us'' is a 1985 American drama directed by Creator/MichaelDinner that follows a group of misfit teenagers (Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, Creator/MaryStuartMasterson, Creator/KevinDillon, Creator/MalcolmDanare, Creator/PatrickDempsey, and StephenGeoffreys) and teachers (Creator/JayPatterson, Creator/WallaceShawn, Creator/JohnHeard, and Creator/DonaldSutherland) at a Catholic all-male preparatory school. Set in 1965, the teens clash with some of the faculty members, experience first love and come of age.
''Heaven Help Us'' is a 1985 American drama directed by Creator/MichaelDinner that follows a group of misfit teenagers (Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, Creator/MaryStuartMasterson, Creator/KevinDillon, Creator/MalcolmDanare, Creator/PatrickDempsey, and StephenGeoffreys) and teachers (Creator/JayPatterson, Creator/WallaceShawn, Creator/JohnHeard, and Creator/DonaldSutherland) at a Catholic all-male preparatory school. Set in 1965, the teens clash with some of the faculty members, experience first love and come of age.
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* WhamLine: "As I understand it, Brother Constance started it.""
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* HighSchoolDance: St. Basil's hosts one with the separate Catholic girls' school... which none of the teens enjoy much because the opening speech to the event was a Brother screaming at them about the dangers of lust.
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* ApatheticStudent: Rooney, who is repeating a grade. He enlists [[NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork Caesar to do his schoolwork for him]] so he will not be held back again. [[spoilers:He still doesn't graduate that year.]]
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* ApatheticStudent: Rooney, who is repeating a grade. He enlists [[NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork Caesar to do his schoolwork for him]] so he will not be held back again. [[spoilers:He [[spoiler: He still doesn't graduate that year.]]
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* ApatheticStudent: Rooney, who is repeating a grade. He enlists [[NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork Caesar to do his schoolwork for him]] so he will not be held back again. [[Spoiler:He still doesn't graduate that year.]]
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* ApatheticStudent: Rooney, who is repeating a grade. He enlists [[NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork Caesar to do his schoolwork for him]] so he will not be held back again. [[Spoiler:He [[spoilers:He still doesn't graduate that year.]]
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* ApatheticStudent: Rooney, who is repeating a grade. He enlists [[NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork Caesar to do his schoolwork for him]] so he will not be held back again.
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* ApatheticStudent: Rooney, who is repeating a grade. He enlists [[NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork Caesar to do his schoolwork for him]] so he will not be held back again. [[Spoiler:He still doesn't graduate that year.]]
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* TroubledChild: Michael's little sister is seen early on going to bed with flowers draped all around her like a funeral, and she asks Michael to perform Last Rites on her. She hasn't gotten over the deaths of her parents yet.
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* HonorThyParent: Michael’s grandmother wants to see him become a priest as his parents hoped.
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* HonorThyParent: Michael’s grandmother wants to see him become a priest as his parents hoped. She openly hopes he'll become the first American Pope.
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* SelfAbuse: Williams is a compulsive masturbator who's also pallid, twitchy, and socially awkward.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Brother Thadeus becomes one by the end, when he sides with the boys' account of Brother Constance's abuse and ships him off to somewhere he won't be a threat to young students. He then promotes Brother Timothy to the teaching vacancy, implying the culture at the school will be less punishing.
* SadisticTeacher: Brother Constance. He's more than eager to use the paddle on any student who crosses him.
* SelfAbuse: Williams is a compulsive masturbator who's also pallid, twitchy, and socially awkward.
* SadisticTeacher: Brother Constance. He's more than eager to use the paddle on any student who crosses him.
* SelfAbuse: Williams is a compulsive masturbator who's also pallid, twitchy, and socially awkward.
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* {{Unishment}}: [[spoiler: Dunn, Caesar, Rooney, Williams, and Corbett are suspended from school for two weeks for their involvement in the ending fracas. The boys are happy to be briefly suspended]].
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* {{Unishment}}: [[spoiler: Dunn, Caesar, Rooney, Williams, and Corbett are suspended from school for two weeks for their involvement in the ending fracas. The boys are happy to be briefly suspended]].suspended]].
* WhamLine: "As I understand it, Brother Constance started it."
* WhamLine: "As I understand it, Brother Constance started it."
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A 1985 American drama directed by Creator/MichaelDinner that follows a group of misfit teenagers (Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, Creator/MaryStuartMasterson, Creator/KevinDillon, Creator/MalcolmDanare, Creator/PatrickDempsey, and StephenGeoffreys) and teachers (Creator/JayPatterson, Creator/WallaceShawn, Creator/JohnHeard, and Creator/DonaldSutherland) at a Catholic all-male preparatory school. Set in 1965, the teens clash with some of the repressive faculty members, experience first love and come of age.
It was released on February 8, 1985.
A 1985 American drama directed by Creator/MichaelDinner that follows a group of misfit teenagers (Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, Creator/MaryStuartMasterson, Creator/KevinDillon, Creator/MalcolmDanare, Creator/PatrickDempsey, and StephenGeoffreys) and teachers (Creator/JayPatterson, Creator/WallaceShawn, Creator/JohnHeard, and Creator/DonaldSutherland) at a Catholic all-male preparatory school. Set in 1965, the teens clash with some of the repressive faculty members, experience first love and come of age.
It was released on February 8, 1985.
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* CaughtInTheRain: While Dunn and Danni are walking on the beach, it starts to run and they take cover under the boardwalk.
* CoolTeacher: Idealistic Brother Timothy is this in contrast to the sadistic and cruel Brother Constance.
* CoolTeacher: Idealistic Brother Timothy is this in contrast to the sadistic and cruel Brother Constance.
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* CaughtInTheRain: While Dunn and Danni are walking on the beach, it starts to run rain and they take cover under the boardwalk.
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* CoolTeacher: Idealistic Brother Timothy is this in contrast to the sadistic and cruel Brother Constance.
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* CorporalPunishment: At a Catholic prep school, Constance uses a wooden board to beat the protagonist's hands in the middle of class. Later he uses a leather belt on a small group one at a time bent over a bench. Upset that one of them presents a written and valid exemption to this form of punishment, Constance then starts beating him in the face with the belt. Michael then chases Constance across the campus where they crash a school assembly. The teacher attempts to beat him right there on the stage and gets punched out to the roar of the entire student body.
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* CoolTeacher: Idealistic Brother Timothy is this in contrast to the sadistic and cruel Brother Constance.
* CorporalPunishment:At a Catholic prep school, Brother Constance uses a wooden board to beat the protagonist's hands in the middle of class. Later he uses a leather belt on a small group one at a time bent over a bench. Upset that one of them presents a written and valid exemption to this form of punishment, Constance then starts beating him in the face with the belt. Michael then chases Constance across the campus where they crash a school assembly. The teacher attempts to beat him right there on the stage and gets punched out to the roar of the entire student body.
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* StandingInTheHall: The movie has Catholic-school students who have to kneel on the floor with their arms out, balancing heavy books.
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* StandingInTheHall: The movie has Catholic-school Catholic school students who have to kneel on the floor with their arms out, balancing heavy books.
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* TeachersOutOfSchool: Brother Timothy isn’t like all the other strict teachers, he’s a Cool Teacher.
* Unishment: [[spoiler: Dunn, Caesar, Rooney, Williams, and Corbett are suspended from school for two weeks for their involvement in the ending fracas. The boys are happy to be briefly suspended]].
* Unishment: [[spoiler: Dunn, Caesar, Rooney, Williams, and Corbett are suspended from school for two weeks for their involvement in the ending fracas. The boys are happy to be briefly suspended]].
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* TeachersOutOfSchool: Brother Timothy isn’t like all the other strict teachers, he’s a Cool Teacher.
CoolTeacher. The teens at the soda fountain get nervous at his appearance in the hangout, fearing he will raid the place like the other monks. It turns he is just there to buy his cigarettes and is not going to punish anyone.
*Unishment: {{Tomboy}}: Danni, the teen girl who runs the soda fountain and helps care for her mentally infirm father.
* {{Unishment}}: [[spoiler: Dunn, Caesar, Rooney, Williams, and Corbett are suspended from school for two weeks for their involvement in the ending fracas. The boys are happy to be briefly suspended]].
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* {{Unishment}}: [[spoiler: Dunn, Caesar, Rooney, Williams, and Corbett are suspended from school for two weeks for their involvement in the ending fracas. The boys are happy to be briefly suspended]].
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A 1985 American drama directed by Creator/MichaelDinner that follows a group of misfit teenagers (Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, Creator/MaryStuartMasterson, Creator/KevinDillon, Creator/MalcolmDanare, Creator/PatrickDempsey, and StephenGeoffreys) and teachers (Creator/JayPatterson, Creator/WallaceShawn, Creator/JohnHeard, and Creator/DonaldSutherland) at a school where the children come of age.
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A 1985 American drama directed by Creator/MichaelDinner that follows a group of misfit teenagers (Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, Creator/MaryStuartMasterson, Creator/KevinDillon, Creator/MalcolmDanare, Creator/PatrickDempsey, and StephenGeoffreys) and teachers (Creator/JayPatterson, Creator/WallaceShawn, Creator/JohnHeard, and Creator/DonaldSutherland) at a school where Catholic all-male preparatory school. Set in 1965, the children teens clash with some of the repressive faculty members, experience first love and come of age.
* ApatheticStudent: Rooney, who is repeating a grade. He enlists [[NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork Caesar to do his schoolwork for him]] so he will not be held back again.
* AssimilationAcademy: St. Basil’s is a strict all-boys Catholic school that promotes conformity.
* CaughtInTheRain: While Dunn and Danni are walking on the beach, it starts to run and they take cover under the boardwalk.
* CoolTeacher: Idealistic Brother Timothy is this in contrast to the sadistic and cruel Brother Constance.
* AssimilationAcademy: St. Basil’s is a strict all-boys Catholic school that promotes conformity.
* CaughtInTheRain: While Dunn and Danni are walking on the beach, it starts to run and they take cover under the boardwalk.
* CoolTeacher: Idealistic Brother Timothy is this in contrast to the sadistic and cruel Brother Constance.
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* SelfAbuse: the movie features a compulsive masturbator who's also pallid, twitchy, and socially awkward.
* StandingInTheHall: The movie has Catholic-school students who have to kneel on the floor with their arms out, balancing heavy books.
* StandingInTheHall: The movie has Catholic-school students who have to kneel on the floor with their arms out, balancing heavy books.
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* EverybodySmokes: Almost everyone smokes, including Brother Timothy and Dunn's little sister.
* HonorThyParent: Michael’s grandmother wants to see him become a priest as his parents hoped.
* ItAmusedMe: Rooney and his crew pull all kinds of pranks at school, from hijinks during Mass to impersonating a priest in the confessional booth.
* LocalHangout: The fountain shop across from St. Basil’s that occasionally gets raided by the Brothers.
* NewTransferStudent: Michael Dunn.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Michael and his sister Boo are raised by their grandparents following the death of their parents.
* SelfAbuse:the movie features Williams is a compulsive masturbator who's also pallid, twitchy, and socially awkward.
* TheSixties: The film takes place in 1965.
* SkippingSchool: On a school field trip to see the Pope at a parade, the boys ditch the trip and catch an Elvis movie.
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* SternTeacher: Brother Thadeus, the school headmaster.
* TeachersOutOfSchool: Brother Timothy isn’t like all the other strict teachers, he’s a Cool Teacher.
* Unishment: [[spoiler: Dunn, Caesar, Rooney, Williams, and Corbett are suspended from school for two weeks for their involvement in the ending fracas. The boys are happy to be briefly suspended]].
* HonorThyParent: Michael’s grandmother wants to see him become a priest as his parents hoped.
* ItAmusedMe: Rooney and his crew pull all kinds of pranks at school, from hijinks during Mass to impersonating a priest in the confessional booth.
* LocalHangout: The fountain shop across from St. Basil’s that occasionally gets raided by the Brothers.
* NewTransferStudent: Michael Dunn.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Michael and his sister Boo are raised by their grandparents following the death of their parents.
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* TheSixties: The film takes place in 1965.
* SkippingSchool: On a school field trip to see the Pope at a parade, the boys ditch the trip and catch an Elvis movie.
* StandingInTheHall: The movie has Catholic-school students who have to kneel on the floor with their arms out, balancing heavy
* SternTeacher: Brother Thadeus, the school headmaster.
* TeachersOutOfSchool: Brother Timothy isn’t like all the other strict teachers, he’s a Cool Teacher.
* Unishment: [[spoiler: Dunn, Caesar, Rooney, Williams, and Corbett are suspended from school for two weeks for their involvement in the ending fracas. The boys are happy to be briefly suspended]].
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A 1985 American drama that follows a group of misfit teenagers (Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, Creator/MaryStuartMasterson, Creator/KevinDillon, Creator/MalcolmDanare, Creator/PatrickDempsey, and StephenGeoffreys) and teachers (Creator/JayPatterson, Creator/WallaceShawn, Creator/JohnHeard, and Creator/DonaldSutherland) at a school where the children come of age.
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A 1985 American drama directed by Creator/MichaelDinner that follows a group of misfit teenagers (Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, Creator/MaryStuartMasterson, Creator/KevinDillon, Creator/MalcolmDanare, Creator/PatrickDempsey, and StephenGeoffreys) and teachers (Creator/JayPatterson, Creator/WallaceShawn, Creator/JohnHeard, and Creator/DonaldSutherland) at a school where the children come of age.
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A 1985 American drama that follows a group of misfit teenagers (Creator/AndrewMcCarthy, Creator/MaryStuartMasterson, Creator/KevinDillon, Creator/MalcolmDanare, Creator/PatrickDempsey, and StephenGeoffreys) and teachers (Creator/JayPatterson, Creator/WallaceShawn, Creator/JohnHeard, and Creator/DonaldSutherland) at a school where the children come of age.
It was released on February 8, 1985.
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* {{Confessional}}: The film, set at a Catholic high school, has TheBully advising the other boys on how to cut down on their penance by reducing the number of sins they confess to manageable but still believable levels, [[MetaphoricallyTrue and then adding one lie to the list]].
* CorporalPunishment: At a Catholic prep school, Constance uses a wooden board to beat the protagonist's hands in the middle of class. Later he uses a leather belt on a small group one at a time bent over a bench. Upset that one of them presents a written and valid exemption to this form of punishment, Constance then starts beating him in the face with the belt. Michael then chases Constance across the campus where they crash a school assembly. The teacher attempts to beat him right there on the stage and gets punched out to the roar of the entire student body.
* SelfAbuse: the movie features a compulsive masturbator who's also pallid, twitchy, and socially awkward.
* StandInTheHall: The movie has Catholic-school students who have to kneel on the floor with their arms out, balancing heavy books.
It was released on February 8, 1985.
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!Tropes for the film:
* {{Confessional}}: The film, set at a Catholic high school, has TheBully advising the other boys on how to cut down on their penance by reducing the number of sins they confess to manageable but still believable levels, [[MetaphoricallyTrue and then adding one lie to the list]].
* CorporalPunishment: At a Catholic prep school, Constance uses a wooden board to beat the protagonist's hands in the middle of class. Later he uses a leather belt on a small group one at a time bent over a bench. Upset that one of them presents a written and valid exemption to this form of punishment, Constance then starts beating him in the face with the belt. Michael then chases Constance across the campus where they crash a school assembly. The teacher attempts to beat him right there on the stage and gets punched out to the roar of the entire student body.
* SelfAbuse: the movie features a compulsive masturbator who's also pallid, twitchy, and socially awkward.
* StandInTheHall: The movie has Catholic-school students who have to kneel on the floor with their arms out, balancing heavy books.
