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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: January 1, 1982 |
Starring:
Bernadette Peters, Eliska Krupka, Jay Garner, Jessica Harper, John Karlen, John McMartin, Robert Fitch, Steve Martin, Tommy Rall, Vernel Bagneris
Summary:
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
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Pennies From Heaven is a rejuvenating, landmark achievement in the evolution of Hollywood musicals, and certainly the finest American movie of 1981. [18 Dec 1981, p.C1]
This courageous film breaks new ground in movie musicals. [21 Dec 1981, p.49]
This 1981 film drips with a sense of anger and betrayal that seems wildly out of scale to its cause—the discovery (less than original) that musicals don't reproduce social reality. The 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.
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