The film version of Dennis Potter 's acclaimed musical fantasy starring
Steve Martin
Bernadette Peters
Christopher Walken Chicago , 1934, the Depression. Sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker , frustrated by his prudish wife and unfulfilled ambition to run his own shop, wants 'to live in a world where the songs come true'.
But his amorous involvement with a timid schoolteacher and presence at the scene of a murder all go to prove that life is rarely 'a bowl of cherries'.
This lavish version of the BBC series brilliantly recreates the period and pays homage to a host of Hollywood musicals as well as many classic songs.
Screenplay by DENNIS POTTER Based on his television series Produced by NORA KAYE and HERBERT ROSS
Directed by HERBERT ROSS
(First showing on British television)
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