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- "Pennies from Heaven" offers a mixed bag of delights and disappointments in this 3-star musical extravaganza. As a die-hard Steve Martin fan, it's tough not to be swayed by his charm, but the main character's flaws make it a struggle to root for him entirely.
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“Pennies from Heaven” illustrates its insight by setting up a brutal contrast between its dramatic scenes and its musical numbers. The story in this film is relentlessly downbeat, cruel, and occasionally twisted: A miserable marriage leads to a cheerless love affair, both based on the sexual humiliation of women.
83% Tomatometer 29 Reviews. 64% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings. This heavily stylized production with lip-synched musical numbers follows Arthur Parker (Steve Martin), a Depression-era sheet-music...
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10/10. Spactacular; possibly the most underrated film of the last 20 years. robb_772 7 May 2006. An Americanized adaptation of the six-part 1978 British miniseries, underrated director Herbert Ross' brilliant PENNIES FROM HEAVEN was a huge commercial flop in US when originally released.
Pennies from Heaven is a 1981 American musical romantic drama film directed by Herbert Ross, based on the 1978 BBC television drama of the same name. Dennis Potter adapted his screenplay from the BBC series for American audiences, changing its setting from London and the Forest of Dean to Depression-era Chicago and rural Illinois .
TOP CRITIC. [Pennies] is the most emotional movie musical I’ve ever seen. It’s a stylized mythology of the Depression which uses the popular songs of the period as expressions of people’s...
Austin Chronicle. Here, Martin and company turn the proceedings into an unfunny farce, flinging out silly jokes at the rate of an Airplane movie in the desperate hope that something will stick. See all 13 reviews on Metacritic.com. See all external reviews for Pennies from Heaven.
Jan 1, 1982 · Pennies from Heaven: Directed by Herbert Ross. With Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper, Vernel Bagneris. During the Great Depression, a sheet-music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.
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