Pennies from Heaven
The film follows Arthur Parker, a Depression-era sheet-music salesman with big dreams who seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
9 August 1930, Austin, Texas, USA
27 December 1929, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
23 March 1919, New York City, New York, USA
11 September 1938, Akron, Ohio, USA
30 September 1971, San Diego, California, USA
4 August 1944, Kermit, Texas, USA
28 February 1948, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
15 August 1927, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
18 January 1948, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
28 March 1934, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
28 May 1933, Brooklyn, New York, USA
26 August 1946, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 January 1936, New York, USA
13 April 1969
8 May 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 January 1929, Sewanee, Tennessee, USA
30 March 1919, Elkins, West Virginia, USA
14 April 1938, San Diego, California, USA
March 08, 2008
Underrated, fascinating musical starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters.
May 20, 2008
Almost as if he were directing Pinter, Herbert Ross has actors speak a line, then wait two beats before delivering the next phrase. Technique smothers such ordinarily lively performers as Martin, Peters and Harper.
January 01, 2000
he point is made endlessly, though it's in the film's favor that it's made with seriousness, consideration, and a certain amount of imagination.
July 08, 2007
O ótimo conceito deste musical torna-se ainda mais fascinante graças às belas coreografias, aos ricos figurinos, à impecável direção de arte e, é claro, à magnífica fotografia de Gordon Willis.
December 05, 2011
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.
February 02, 2009
Perhaps this was not the project on which to lavish so many MGM millions. The BBC show was an enchanted cottage; this is the Las Vegas Grand Hotel.
June 24, 2006
Let's face the music and dance, indeed.
May 20, 2008
Not for everyone, but those who respond to it will find it unforgettable.
May 24, 2003
Potter adapted his immensely successful British TV series into a Hollywood script that maintained most of its intelligence as well as the musical numbers.
August 30, 2004
The movie, though, is not easy to respond to. It's chilly without being provocative in any intellectual way.
March 26, 2004
Dark as night but perfectly lit, a little sad but with a song in its heart.
October 23, 2004
Pennies from Heaven is dazzling and disappointing in equal measure.
