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Its a Wonderful Life
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
16 March 1876, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
March 23, 1911 in New York City, New York, USA
January 12, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 January 1921, Hollywood, California, USA
August 21, 1881 in Germany
8 May 1878, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
25 June 1925, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
29 July 1894, New York City, New York, USA
August 7, 1927 in Paris, Illinois, USA
18 June 1885, San Francisco, California, USA
October 19, 1882 in Gwinnett County, Georgia, USA
16 September 1894
December 24, 2013
The inspirational, thoroughly festive ending is guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.
August 31, 2012
Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.
August 31, 2012
I wasn't able to get reasonably straight about it for quite a while. I still think it has a good deal of charm and quality, enough natural talent involved in it to make ten pictures ten times as good, and terrific vitality or, rather, vigor.
November 05, 2013
This masterpiece from Frank Capra still has a lot to say about community spirit and is a film with much more to it than feel-good sentimentality.
December 03, 2013
I love it, corny as it may be, because it reminds every one of us that we all make contributions to the people around us, contributions we ourselves don't even realise.
December 07, 2014
It's a Wonderful Life is a wonderful title for a motion picture about which practically everyone who sees it will agree that it's wonderful entertainment.
December 04, 2012
This is the all-time great, curl-up-on-the-sofa-with-a-cup-of-tea movie. Not only is it beautifully photographed, but it also contains enough emotional strength to hold your attention for all of its two-hour running time.
December 04, 2012
It's a Wonderful Life is about hunger. It's about greed. It's about the many ways a good man is stymied. Finally, it's about George Bailey, whose decency prevents him even from killing himself.
December 05, 2008
It's a Wonderful Life is a pretty wonderful movie.
December 19, 2016
While it isn't the best picture to come out of Hollywood this year, nor is it Capra's masterpiece, it tells a good story and its conclusion has a heart-warming effect on the audience.
December 03, 2013
It's both a summation of Capra's own career and a peak of achievement for a gentler kind of American cinema

