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It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

8.3/ 10

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4,841

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1946

Release Year

131 min

Runtime

Drama
Family
Fantasy

Overview

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

Keywords

small town
angel
suicide attempt
holiday
bank
great depression
family business
black and white
nervous breakdown
old house
newlywed
magic realism
told in flashback
alternative reality
guardian angel
high school dance
christmas
candid
what if
christmas eve
adoring
amused

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Reviews(5)

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barrymost

barrymost

August 18, 2019

10
10/10

It's practically an American tradition to watch this film with family at Christmas time each year. I just saw it for the first time myself a couple weeks before last Christmas, and I loved it. It's an uplifting, inspiring, dramatic, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story, with a cast that probabl

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Peter McGinn

Peter McGinn

@narrator56

December 24, 2020

9
9/10

Oh my goodness, I am not going to spend much time describing this gold standard of Christmas movies. If you have seen it, you know what it is. If you haven’t seen it, stop reading this and watch it now. It is funny, tense, sentimental, romantic and downright Capra-esque. I have liked Jimmy Stewar

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r96sk

r96sk

December 26, 2020

8
8/10

Lovely film. <em>'It’s a Wonderful Life'</em> is enjoyable, hearty and well crafted. It takes longer than I would've predicted to get to 'the event', but it's very much worth seeing the journey that comes before - as we see the arc of James Stewart's George. It all crescendos with an ending that

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

July 7, 2022

8
8/10

Every now and again you come across a film that just makes you think.... This is one of those. Recently upconverted to 4K and back on a big screen, it's quite simply a joy to watch. Jimmy Stewart is "George" - a man who has spent his adult life tirelessly trying to help those less fortunate to make

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GenerationofSwine

GenerationofSwine

December 25, 2023

10
10/10

I am not one of those snobs that thinks Black and White is always better... but don't watch the colored version of it, there is something about it that just doesn't look right. Maybe it's because the colors are off, maybe because I'm not as used to it, but something doesn't sit right with it. An

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