---
title: 'Heaven Help Us (1985)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Michael Dinner'
released: '1985-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 99
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/heaven-help-us-1985'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089264/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Heaven Help Us (1985)

1985 · 99 min · Drama, Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

Heaven Help Us is a 1985 American comedy-drama film directed by Michael Dinner. It stars Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon, Malcolm Danare, Patrick Dempsey and Stephen Geoffreys as a group of Brooklyn teenagers, with Jay Patterson, Wallace Shawn, John Heard and Donald Sutherland as the teachers and administrators at the private Catholic school the boys attend in the 1960s.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Michael Dinner](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-dinner)
- **Screenplay:** [Charles Purpura](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-purpura)
- **Original Music Composer:** [James Horner](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-horner)
- **Director of Photography:** [Miroslav Ondříček](https://cinepixo.com/people/miroslav-ondricek)
- **Editor:** [Stephen A. Rotter](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-a-rotter)

## Cast

- [Mary Stuart Masterson](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-stuart-masterson)
- [Kevin Dillon](https://cinepixo.com/people/kevin-dillon)
- [Andrew McCarthy](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-mccarthy)
- [Calvert DeForest](https://cinepixo.com/people/calvert-deforest)
- [Jennifer Dundas](https://cinepixo.com/people/jennifer-dundas)
- [John Heard](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-heard)
- [Dana Barron](https://cinepixo.com/people/dana-barron)
- [Philip Bosco](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-bosco)
- [Patrick Dempsey](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrick-dempsey)
- [Kate Reid](https://cinepixo.com/people/kate-reid)
- [Malcolm Danare](https://cinepixo.com/people/malcolm-danare)
- [Yeardley Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/yeardley-smith)
- [Wallace Shawn](https://cinepixo.com/people/wallace-shawn)
- [Stephen Geoffreys](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-geoffreys)
- [Donald Sutherland](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-sutherland)

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