Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Metacritic64/100
110 audience votes
Key crew
- Herbert RossDirector
- Dennis PotterWriter
- Billy MayOriginal Music Composer
- Ralph BurnsOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Steve MartinArthur
- Bernadette PetersEileen
- Jessica HarperJoan
- Vernel BagnerisThe Accordion Man
- John McMartinMr. Warner
- John KarlenThe Detective
- Jay GarnerThe Banker
- Robert FitchAl
- Tommy RallEd
- Eliska KrupkaThe Blind Girl
- Christopher WalkenTom
- Francis X. McCarthyThe Bartender
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Themes
chicago, illinoismarriagemusicalgreat depressionteachertraveling salesman1930s
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