" The media event of the summer ! " - New York Times

"explosive !" - Siskel & Ebert

"iron lady a lock for best director!" - L.A. Times

 


Jam Park Pictures' latest epic Heaven Help Me opened in October 1998 to RAVE reviews! A star-studded cast led by Imelda Sue Feliciano and Peca Pacino -- Heaven Help Me received 12 Academy Award 1999 nominations on Monday, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Song.

 


Siskel and Ebert called Heaven Help Me

THE MOTION PICTURE EVENT OF 1998!

Heaven Help Me is A Place In The Sun for the dark decade of the 90s. Just as A Place In The Sun moved like still waters in the night, Heaven Help Me plumbs the silent depths of human darkness in a timeless tale of hate, love and power.

Heaven is a study of the mood of Generation X in the 90s. Heaven's opening scene is pure cinematic pulp but it works. Generation X in the 90s is a previously little explored theme in Hollywood. Iron Lady Syyong weaves a credible tale of paradise lost and the end of innocence. That promise and beauty captured in fine artistic detail by the film's two anchors.

Feliciano is a "two-time" Academy Award winner. She has tasted Oscar success for her role in Quit Playing Games With My Heart co-starring Davide Enrico DeYoung - that year's Best Actor winner.

Feliciano also won Best Actress the year before for her thrilling portrayal of Taylor in the biographical film of Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher - Piercing The Heart of Gold -- that year's Best Picture winner.

Interviewed at her Malibu home in an exclusive with ET, Feliciano talked about Heaven Help Me. "It was great working on the set with my two co-stars Peca Pacino and Keanu Reeves - who played the role of interloper in the film. Keanu is such a dreamboat, polite, caring and so cute....giggle."

When the topic turned to Pacino - whose portrayal of doomed angel George Eastman further cemented his position as one of Hollywood's A-List leads, Feliciano paused in deep thought. "There is something so real about Pacino - his darkness, his detachness and distance - that is not a performance at all. I think this is what separates Pec Pac from the other "there-to-look-at" leads. He brought a depth to the set that underpinned the entire undertaking. It was a life changing experience that I know I'll never forget."

 

" 'If you want it, you can have it.'

That's what you said.

But I don't want the things that you leave behind."

...........is certain to become the signature scene of Heaven Help Me ..... bet on the Academy "soundbyting" it for their Best Picture nomination clip. Set to pouring rain in a spectacular Galveston flood scene, Pacino and Feliciano levelled their on-screen relationship in one of the most sizzling moments ever captured in screen history. The 23-second screen silence following Pacino's wrenching lines served as a dramatic cinematic vehicle for Heaven's special effects masters to unleash the flood waters seen rising in the background. Reeves leads a helicopter rescue team that manages to burst onto the scene in time to wrench Feliciano out of the "doomed embrace that broke a million female hearts" as the waters send the walls caving in on Pacino ... ...

 


Jambalaya Park's next blockbuster in the works is scheduled for release November 8, 1998 to coincide with their 19th anniversary. The film will star teen queens Melissa Vasquez, Jennifer Fandango and Rhea Santiago in the female leads and Jufrie Suleiman as the male lead in the film entitled Revolving Doors.

Doors is directed and produced by Jambalaya's other marquee director Marco Cayatano who also wrote the screenplay. Cayatano is an actor-director cast in the Quentin Tarantino mold. Original soundtrack by Manuel Ruis. Lead vocals Deon Estus. Backing vocals George Michael.

 


Next Edition of Jambalaya Park News hits stands in November.