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Pennies From Heaven

starring: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper, Vernel Bagneris
directed by: Herbert Ross

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790789941
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790789949
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 27, 2004
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 31171
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 11, 1981



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Description:
During the Great Depression, a married sheet-music salesman falls in love with another woman and uses cheery songs from that era to imagine a better life for himself.

Amazon.com essential video:
Steve Martin plays Arthur, a '30s-era traveling sheet-music salesman whose marriage is bleak and who embarks on a fateful affair with a teacher (an amazing Bernadette Peters). Arthur's dreary world is juxtaposed with Busby Berkeley-styled musical production numbers that showcase Martin's and Peters's versatility. Arthur's world is desperate, sad, and only the more so when directly compared to the musical numbers. But it does work and it is affecting.

This dark, yet simultaneously ebullient film written by Dennis Potter is capable of presenting such polar-opposite visuals and emotion. Until this film, Martin was best known for his comedic albums, and for 1979's The Jerk. In other words, Pennies' disappointing box office can be accredited to audiences' inability to accept a dark Martin in the early 1980s. If Martin's dancing ability comes as a surprise, an even greater revelation is Christopher Walken in a sexy stripping tap-dancing number. Bob Hoskins played Arthur in the 1978 British miniseries of the same name. --N.F. Mendoza



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - They can't be serious- can they?
Everyone in this misguided extravaganza tries hard -- maybe too hard -- to make something meaningful ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent Dark Musical; Not What You'd Expect
Had it not been for a film class I took in college, I probably never would have seen this movie. The ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Kennedy Center Honors 2007.
The 2007 institution called 'Steve Martin' is a multi-millionaire of prolific success as a writer, actor, ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Worth more than the cost
Pennies From Heaven Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters are terrific in this innovative, stylish, quirky musical. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Pure delight
This movie was a flop when released.
I just loved it and think it's a masterpiece. Steve Martin and Bernardette ... Read More

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