Pennies from heaven [videorecording] / Turner Entertainment Co. and SLM Entertainment ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a Herbert Ross production ; written for the screen and based on original material by Dennis Potter ; produced by Nora Kaye & Herbert Ross ; directed by Herbert Ross.

Edition:

Widescreen presentation.

Publication:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2004.

Format/Description:

Video
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subjects:

Music trade -- Drama.
Sales personnel -- Drama.

Form/Genre:

Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Musicals.

Language:

English dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles.
Closed-captioned.

System Details:

DVD - NTSC; Dolby Digital mono; Region 1.

Summary:

Steve Martin plays a young sheet-music salesman doomed forever to believe in the lyrics of the songs he sells. Though circumstances steadily worsen for him and his bright-eyed schoolteacher-mistess, he goes on believing that life is just a bowl of cherries ... even when he's got nothing but the pits.

Participant:

Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper, Vernal Bagneris.

Credits:

Director of photography, Gordon Willis ; editor, Richard Marks.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1981.
Special features: scene-specific commentary by film critic Peter Rainer; Pennies from Heaven: 20th-anniversary cast and crew reunion; theatrical trailer.

Contributor:

Ross, Herbert, 1927-2001 , Director, Producer
Kaye, Nora, 1920-1987. , Producer
Potter, Dennis. , Screenwriter
Martin, Steve, 1945- , Actor
Peters, Bernadette. , Actor
Walken, Christopher, 1943- , Actor
Harper, Jessica. , Actor
Rainer, Peter, 1951- , Commentator
Turner Entertainment Co.. , Producer
SLM Entertainment. , Producer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. , Producer
Warner Home Video (Firm). , Distributor

ISBN:

0790789949

OCLC:

55952599

Publisher Number:

012569592421
65924 Warner Home Video

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