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Name: Pennies From Heaven
Released: 1981-12-18
Cast: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper, Vernel Barneris

Pennies From Heaven

R
1h 47m
1981

83%

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Comedian Steve Martin and Broadway luminary Bernadette Peters star in a musical drama about the large and growing divide between the dreams of two people and the grim Depression-era lives they lead ... the distance between their gray world and their imaginary one in which it rains Pennies from Heaven. Arthur (Martin) sells sheet music and fantasizes about a world should that behave according to the lyrics of the songs he sells. Eileen(Peters) fantasizes about love. In their minds, these two share a romance, singing and dancing to the popular music of the 1930s. In reality, the affair between the married Arthur and the innocent Eileen destroys them both.

Director:

Herbert Ross

Producer:

Nora Kaye, Herbert Ross

Writer:

Dennis Potter

Cast:

Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper, Vernel Barneris, John McMartin

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

83%

Critics Consensus: A complicated little musical, Pennies from Heaven is a dazzling, tragic spectacle.

Reviews

New Yorker

Pauline Kael

[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 deepest longings -- for sex, for romance, for money, for a high good time.

September 12, 2023

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Philadelphia Gay News

Larry Vitacco

It's a mix of a pathetic, soft-core potboiler and a musical extravaganza of yore that leaves a sour taste at its conclusion.

It's different, but perfect. [Full Review in Spanish]

Literal-minded moviegoers will find it easy to hate Pennies from Heaven. But those willing to go along with the device will find the film a source of constant surprise and delight.

A bit of filmmaking as film criticism to be respected and admired above and beyond its relationship to the legendary miniseries that it pushed out of print for more than 20 years.

June 22, 2017

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