A Night in Heaven is a 1983 American romantic drama film directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Christopher Atkins as a college student and Lesley Ann Warren as his professor.

Outspoken and overconfident Rick Monroe is a jock and a popular guy at a community college in Titusville, Florida.

At the end of his final report for his class, Rick cracks a joke and his prim and proper speech professor, Faye Hanlon, is not amused.

[3] The story, which was originally titled Ladies' Night, was conceived by choreographer Deney Terrio and was said to be set in the world of male exotic dancers.

[3] Principal photography was reported to begin in January 1982 in Orlando, but production was delayed until that August with the announcement Nicolas Roeg would helm the film, and 20th Century Fox taking over distribution duties from United Artists.

[3] The original music score is composed by Jan Hammer, and the soundtrack features two songs that would later be huge pop hits.

[5] An early version of the song "Obsession", performed on the soundtrack by its co-writers, Holly Knight and Michael Des Barres, would be re-recorded and released as a single by the band Animotion.

[7] A Night in Heaven received largely negative reviews from critics, who cited its confusing plot and unresolved story lines.

"[8] In addition, he called attention to the mismarketing of the movie and how it "plays up the sex angle", though the film comes to focus more on the Hanlons' marital woes and Whitney's midlife crisis.

"[15] He concluded: "it’s an outright joke to pretend that we can cobble together the dog-ends of ignored subplots into a treatise on economic tension in the early years of the Reagan presidency.

It’s not sordid enough to be decent junk...and other than offering the unusual sight of male objectification in a Hollywood studio picture, there’s nothing about it that justifies so much as a sidelong glance.

[4] Avildsen later said the narrative incoherence came from his desire for the film to be about marital forgiveness after infidelity, but Tewkesbury was unable to write the scenes that would emphasize this message.