Heaven Help Us (1985)
Directed by Michael Dinner
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
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Gerwig’s recollections of her own Catholic school days skip the emotional scarification and/or atmosphere of oppression that always seem to adorn these kinds of parochial-school memory movies (“Heaven Help Us” and the like).
Her school is not a dogmatic and formidable institution as seen in so many films about Catholic education, such as 1985’s Heaven Help Us , for Gerwig takes pains to show that its kindly nuns strive to help Lady Bird rise above her lack of scholastic achievements.