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Its a Wonderful Life
George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all - and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence - who then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all his good deeds over the years.
28 November 1923, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 January 1921, Hollywood, California, USA
1 October 1934, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 February 1909, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, USA
8 December 1905, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
27 March 1907, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
22 February 1907, New York City, New York, USA
26 October 1875, London, England, UK
6 March 1933, Hollywood, California, USA
11 July 1892, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
27 September 1898, Albany, New York, USA
9 April 1903, Benkelman, Nebraska, USA
11 October 1881, Glyn Train, Denbighshire, South Wales, UK
23 September 1933, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 August 1907, Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina
13 November 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 June 1925, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
20 May 1908, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
26 January 1905, San Francisco, California, USA
5 March 1874, Prudhoe, Northumberland, England, UK
14 December 1898, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
3 May 1889, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 February 1934, Dallas, Texas, USA
15 October 1935, Toronto, Canada
28 April 1878, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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 05, 2008
It's a Wonderful Life is a pretty wonderful movie.
December 24, 2013
The inspirational, thoroughly festive ending is guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.
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 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.
