Pennies From Heaven
This is a movie my husband recommended that I don't think I'd ever heard of. After looking at the description, though, I knew right away that I had to see it. Starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters, it's a musical set in the 1930's about a feckless song salesman who falls in love with and radically alters the life of a small town school teacher. The musical numbers are mostly told as fantasy segments from the perspective of the various characters and are actually lip synced to the original recordings by people like Frank Sinatra. Imagine a mongrel mix of Purple Rose of Cairo and 9 to 5 (yes, the Dolly Parton movie) and then top it all off with a striptease tap-dance number by none other than Christopher Walken, and you end up with something immenently watchable and entertaining.
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Trey Parker's hilarious movie about a niave Mormon boy who unwittingly turns into a porn super-hero! Seriously, there aren't enough good things I can say about this movie! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! Trey is just damn funny and Dian Bachar as Choda Boy, his dildo helmet-wearing sidekick, just takes it that much further into pants pissing territory. For those of you who watch that sort of thing, you can play great game of Name that Porn Star, as the cast is liberally filled with well-known Adult Film actors, including Ron Jeremy! Bonus! So, get this movie, watch it, then go back and watch it again with the director's commentary on! The only thing better than a Trey Parker movie is a Trey Parker movie with him and his friends recording a director's commentary while drinking heavily. Same goes for Cannibal! The Musical. Seriously, this is silliness at its finest my friends, and you owe it to yourself to see this flick.
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as a side note to you viewers.. i highly recommend that you never NEVER play a drinking game to this movie.... its just punishment.
Pennies from Heaven is truly an underrated classic.
*Sigh*, I miss when Steve Martin actually made good movies.
Jayde - Oh man, after listening to Trey and Co try to keep up with the drinking game, I don't think I would be brave enough to try it, not even back in my hard-drinking days! Though, perhaps a modified version where you only drink each time you see some fuzzy man ass? Nah, that'd still get you plowed.
M. Arachide - Yeah, those wonderful days of Steve Martin making entertaining movies, back when he was funny are, sadly, gone. The Jerk, L.A. Story, heck even All of Me and Three Amigos have been replaced by Cheaper By The Dozen. Don't even get me started on Eddie Murphy.,.
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