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
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.
1981 · 1h 48m · R
Drama, Music, Romance
Directed by
Herbert Ross
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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82%
Tomatometer
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
Rotten
Pennies from Heaven is dazzling and disappointing in equal measure.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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
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
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