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130 min – view video trailer
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Genres: Drama, Family, Fantasy
IMDB 8.7 / Amazon 4.7 / MRQE 89 / Decent Films A+
Oscars: 5 nominations, 0 wins (Best Picture, Actor, Director, Sound, Editing)
Ranked #4 Greatest Movies Through 1960, in 30 of 41 best movies lists, a Zagat Top Movie
An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed. IMDB 8.7 rating from over 143,048 users
Heartwarming and reaffirming, It’s A Wonderful Life is on many lists of the greatest films ever made. Amazon 4.7 stars from over 757 users
“No one is born to be a failure. No one is poor who has friends.” These platitudes, plastered across the packaging of home-video editions of Frank Capra’s evergreen Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life, embody the film’s popular but misleading image as sentimental, schmaltzy “Capra-corn.” Yet the film itself is leavened by darker themes and more rigorous morals about self-sacrifice, disappointment, and the fragility of happiness and the American dream. Read full Decent Films review (rated A+, Superior artistic-entertainment for Kids & Up)
MRQE 89% rating with links to over 105 reviews
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