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It's
A Wonderful Life
Release date 20th December 1946
Country : USA
Running time : 130 mins
Genre : Drama
Starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
Screenplay by Philip Van Doen Stren from the book the Greatest Gift
Directed by Frank Capra
Capra said himself everyone has had the experience of feeling very low, even sometimes to the point that we would rather not live. It is a universal theme and the film is the ultimate expression of reducing that feeling to insignificance. The idea of having not been born returned in the second of the Back to the Future films which gave a nod to Wonderful Life.
DVD
available from Artisan Home Video :Release date 20th December 1946
Country : USA
Running time : 130 mins
Genre : Drama
Starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
Screenplay by Philip Van Doen Stren from the book the Greatest Gift
Directed by Frank Capra
George Bailey discovers that the world
would a much poorer place if he'd never been born.
This is above all a
film about hope and the belief we should be thankful for what we may
achieve in any humdrum life. George Bailey the hero of Frank Capra's
masterpiece feels that he hasn't achieved anything, that he's been
stuck in a back water all his days while his brother has saved lives in
the war. Henry Travers' angel Clarence reveals to him what he did
achieve by keeping houses over people's heads, marrying and having
children, having many friends, preventing an old man from becoming a
drunkard, saving his brother so he could save lives in
return. George achieved so much and his friends rally round but
not before we see the darker side of Capra, James Stewart is excellent
in the scenes where George is in great dispair then exultant that he
wants to live again to face whatever happens to him.
Capra said himself everyone has had the experience of feeling very low, even sometimes to the point that we would rather not live. It is a universal theme and the film is the ultimate expression of reducing that feeling to insignificance. The idea of having not been born returned in the second of the Back to the Future films which gave a nod to Wonderful Life.
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