Fairly typical rites-of-passage drama involving teenage boys (and one girlfriend) at a Catholic school in New York of the Fifties. But what it lacks in offbeat or original situations, it makes up for in sparkling dialogue and engaging performances from its young leads, Andrew McCarthy and Kevin (brother of Matt) Dillon, and Mary Stuart Masterson, who never fails to deliver a gutsy, fully rounded characterisation. And 18th down the cast you'll spot Patrick Dempsey who, despite creditable leading roles in the likes of The Woo Woo Kid and Loverboy, has never quite broken into Hollywood's big league. Donald Sutherland can walk through the kind of concerned, fatherly priest role he plays with his eyes shut. And he does. Made for US cable TV but released in British cinemas as Heaven Help Us.


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