Its a Wonderful Life
A compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman decides to end his life, and an angel who has not earned his wings yet comes to convince that 'It's a Wonderful Life'.
March 24, 1885 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
26 October 1875, London, England, UK
July 29, 1873 in Binghamton, New York, USA
January 27, 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA
6 January 1895, Bayard, Iowa, USA
2 February 1909, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, USA
1 October 1934, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 October 1881, Glyn Train, Denbighshire, South Wales, UK
24 October 1937, California, USA
June 1, 1880 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
14 April 1875, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
16 May 1916, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
August 21, 1881 in Germany
18 February 1902, Brookhaven, Mississippi, USA
June 21, 1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
15 January 1921, Hollywood, California, USA
9 April 1903, Benkelman, Nebraska, USA
22 February 1907, New York City, New York, USA
April 11, 1881 in New York City, New York, USA
October 19, 1882 in Gwinnett County, Georgia, USA
5 December 1906, Brooklyn, New York, USA
20 February 1934, Dallas, Texas, USA
13 November 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 November 1905, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
July 25, 1936 in Hollywood, California, USA
6 March 1933, Hollywood, California, USA
28 July 1899, Beresford, South Dakota, USA
16 September 1888, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
15 October 1935, Toronto, Canada
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
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
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.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
It's both a summation of Capra's own career and a peak of achievement for a gentler kind of American cinemaDecember 05, 2008
It's a Wonderful Life is a pretty wonderful movie.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.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 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 24, 2013
The inspirational, thoroughly festive ending is guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.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.