It stars Jennifer Connelly, Byron Thames, and Maddie Corman as three teenage friends in Ohio coping with life and love.

[2] At the 1986 Sundance Film Festival where it premiered, it received a special merit for outstanding achievement.

Natalie, whose mother is deceased, agrees to let Jeff stay at her house for a few days while her father is away on business.

They meet and talk and, while trying to avoid an obsessive fan of Zoo, take cover in a lingerie store.

During a school fire drill, Polly shouts out to Jeff, within hearing distance of Natalie, that Casey is flirting with their classmate Lisa.

Natalie wins a writing competition and goes to Washington D.C. She meets the Vice-President, one of her state's senators, and Williams, a White House aide.

Bill lets her stay at his apartment for the night (she unsuccessfully tries to seduce him) and agrees to drive her to the airport the next morning.

Jeff says he is thinking about moving to California to be with his dad, but his mother reminds him his father doesn't even have a home or job.

In a retrospective review, critic Adrian Martin gave the film 3.5/5 stars, writing "Seven Minutes in Heaven is one of many modest 1980s gems that reminds us of a brief flowering in genre-driven creativity neither mainstream nor indie – and that gave opportunities to many women to make what has turned out to be their only feature films.

"[4] He added, "Nothing more momentous than a bit of kissing ever happens – and the film delivers nothing more cathartic than a smile and a group-skate.

But, like many unfairly forgotten films of its type, Seven Minutes in Heaven is at every moment charming, witty and playful.