Product Details

• Actors: Bob Hoskins, Cheryl Campbell, Gemma Craven, Kenneth Colley, Freddie Jones
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: BBC Warner
• DVD Release Date: August 22, 2006
• Run Time: 967 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000G8P1IM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #435,170 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Singing Detective/Pennies From Heaven" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Inside the Mind of Dennis Potter, September 15, 2008

By 

Fremont A. Williams "Monty Williams" (Grand Rapids, Michigan) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: The Singing Detective/Pennies From Heaven (DVD)

If you like psychological drama and music from the 1930's and 1940's, then you will love The Singing Detective. It never got much air play in the United States but was quite popular in England. The story takes place in a hospital ward and there are frequent flashbacks to the author's childhood and frequent forays into the writer's imaginative world. There is a brilliant blurring of fantasy and reality that keeps you guessing about the outcome right to the end. This was a miniseries so it is over six hours long but worth every minute.

We have yet to watch Pennies from Heaven but expect it to be good too.