Pennies from Heavendirected by Herbert Ross | |
| Category: |
"Musical" |
|---|---|
| Year of Release: | 1981 |
| Date Added: | 05/23/2024 |
| Date Watched: | 05/23/2024 |
| Description: | Arthur Parker (Steve Martin) is a traveling music salesman in the 1930s. He's unhappy in his marriage because his wife, Joan, is frigid and because she refuses to let him use his money to open a music store. On the road, he meets schoolteacher Eileen (Bernadette Peters) and seduces her. She gets pregnant and loses her job. She meets Tom (Christopher Walken), and he convinces her to become a prostitute. Meanwhile, Joan realizes Arthur's having an affair and gives him her money to keep him. Arthur opens a store, but it soon fails. He meets Eileen on the street, and they fun off together, but they have no money and she has to go back to prostitution. Meanwhile, Arthur has been accused (falsely) of raping and murdering a blind girl. He's arrested and hung. All of this in interspersed with happy musical numbers from the 1930s, portrayed as fantasies and lip-synced by the actors. |
| My Rating: | 5 |
Reviewed by Roger on 2024-05-23 18:12:46
