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Pennies from Heaven
There's a world on both sides of the rainbow where songs come true and every time it rains, it rains Pennies from Heaven.
There's a world on both sides of the rainbow where songs come true an...
Drama, Music, Romance - 1981
Pennies from Heaven
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During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.
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Details

Runtime:
108 min
Release date:
11 Dec 1981
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$22,000,000
Revenue:
$9,171,289
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. 3 wins & 9 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
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.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
2 Feb 2009
rotten:
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.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
20 May 2008
rotten:
Pennies from Heaven is dazzling and disappointing in equal measure.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
The movie, though, is not easy to respond to. It's chilly without being provocative in any intellectual way.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
fresh:
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.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
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