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Actors: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Pennies from Heaven |
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Arthur Parker's love life is in a long standstill. Joan Parker's wife is dull, unromantic and sexually inhibited in bed, oppose to her husband's high sex drive. Arthur wants his wife to appreciate him as a husband and have passion for him, but she'd refuses to do so. On top of that, his sales business selling music sheets is not going nowhere as he need the money to keep things moving. Though Joan has the money (which she inherit from her father) husband's career, she does not gives him one penny, since she saving the money for later years.
Frustrated at his life, Arthur leaves on a business trip, leaving his wife behind and states that he will not come back home. On his trip, he meets with accordion player "the accordian man" and Eileen Everson, a teacher he ran across in a music store. Everson seems to be everything Joan is not; responsive, caring and understanding. It does not take too long until Arthur falls in love with the teacher, and immediately professes his love for her. Although flattered by his fondess for Everson, she kindly turns him down.
Soon enough Eileen turn to Arthur advances and the two have a love affair- Athur tells a little lie about his marriage, so things between him and Eileen does not go sour. After their fling, Arthur does return home to his wife, who were scared that he would leave her. Suprisingly Joan does her best to win her husband's affections, be whatever he wanted her to be before departing from their home, even lending money to him to help his sales business. But things is not over between Arthur and his mistress as he soon finds out she is pregnant and suddenly loses her teaching job. Eileen want a better life between her and Arthur, even becoming a streetwalker to make ends meet. She also get an abortion and from there, that where Eileen become miserable. Still trying to juggle his relationship between his wife and girlfriend, Arthur also get caught in the middle of being accused of a murder of a blind girl he only met a few times.
--Alicia M., Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Pennies from Heaven |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- inconveniently married while playing footsy
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- salesman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (woman) long curly
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Midwest
City?
Yes
City:
- dangerous
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of singing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
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