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In the annals of forgotten eighties teen films Seven Minutes in Heaven isn't exactly one that demands to be remembered. The 1985 five-sided love triangle film stars BFFs played by Jennifer Connolly (in one of her first film roles) and Maddie Corman (who killed it as Keith's younger sister Laura in Some Kind of Wonderful).



If that pairing makes you curious, you'd mostly do well to get over your curiosity. The pacing, the editing, the titles and cheesy music are more in keeping with made-for-TV fare of the time. And by "made-for-TV," I mean "after-school special." I'd probably sooner recommend The Day My Kid Went Punk 10 times out of 10. It uses internal voices all over the place too, like cut-rate Eugene O'Neill. Really cut rate. O'Neill's usually funnier too.



But why do I mention it here? Because Maddie Corman's character (Jill? Tami? Honore?) develops a thing for a ballplayer, and runs off to see him play in New York, and so it earns a place in the Shea Stadium on Celluloid Film Festival.



Thrill to the players dressed in fake Expos uniforms, so they can cut together narrative parts together with actual game footage. Groan as the object of affection crushes Dwight Gooden's first pitch like Tuffy Rhodes in disguise. Mostly, be glad that you live in a time where you can cue up the Shea Stadium shots on YouTube rather than sit through this malodorous eighties cinematic relic.



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