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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.
15 January 1921, Hollywood, California, USA
25 June 1925, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3 May 1889, Chicago, Illinois, USA
11 July 1892, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
31 August 1907, Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina
27 September 1898, Albany, New York, USA
23 September 1933, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 February 1909, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, USA
4 April 1875, Brooklyn, New York, USA
13 November 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 March 1884, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
10 August 1904, Newark, New Jersey, USA
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