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Pennies from Heaven (1981)
By Richard Winters
My Rating: 7 out of 10
4-Word Review: Escaping from the depression.
Arthur (Steve Martin) is a struggling sheet music salesmen during the depression, who’s looking to escape his dreary existence by becoming a songwriter, but finds that no one including his wife (Jessica Harper) cares about what his dreams, which leaves him feeling lost and alone. He then meets perky schoolteacher Eileen (Bernadette Peters) and the two begin an affair despite her not knowing that he is already married. When she gets pregnant and loses her job because of it Arthur is nowhere to be found and instead he gets unjustly tabbed for committing rape on a blind woman (Eliska Krupka) that he did not do.
The film is based on a 6-part miniseries that aired on the BBC in 1978 and starred Bob Hoskins. Martin saw it and was so enamored with the story that he became compelled to have it remade here and the studio even hired the same writer, Dennis Potter, to pen the script although the studio forced him to do 13 rewrites before they finally accepted it. Despite the extravagant musical numbers, which are pretty good, and positive critical reception, the filmed failed to achieve any success at the box office where it took in a paltry 2 million th
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NOTE: This is not a new review. This is derived from a review I posted on social media on November 10, 2016.
It’s such a fascinating and anomalous film. An R-rated post-modern musical with almost no actual singing, blending low-key solos and duets, massive production numbers, and a grim tale of a sexually-frustrated music salesman in Depression-era Chicago who wants to believe in a world where the songs he sells are real.
As the salesman, Arthur, Steve Martin gives a performance which must have startled his fans at the time, taking the bright-eyed, seemingly wholesome masculinity of the time, and curdling into it a perverted mania. He’s eternally a stranger in his own time and place, and takes it out on the women in his life.
There’s Eileen, played by Bernadette Peters, a quiet small-town schoolmarm whose sexuality is awakened by Arthur, but who must turn to prostitution when he fails her time and again. It’s a performance which draws on all aspects of Peters’ talent, and she is equally adept at portraying Eileen’s initial mousy timidity and, later, her bitter—but not hopeless—knowingness.
And then there’s Joan, Arthur’s wife, played by Jessica Harper, struggling to put up with her husband’s perversions, which
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