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Pennies From Heaven review

Rated - 4.0 stars

By a customer from Edinburgh, Scotland Avatar image

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Pennies From Heaven

Director Piers Haggard
Genres Drama, Television
Run time 480 mins Certificate 15

24th February 2010

The first couple of episodes are a bit slow, but episode three is awesome with great dialogues and acting (forgotten how good Bob Hoskins was), and could stand alone. Things get going after that. The story is ambiguous at times, which can be intriguing, but also irritating. Also the old low-budget BBC sets have seriously dated. There are the usual Potter obsessions; old-fashioned pop music, suicide in the Thames, prostitution, voyeurism, hay-lofts, the Forest of Dean, schooldays etc. Patchy, but when it’s good, I really enjoyed it.