
It's a Wonderful Life 75th Anniversary presented by TCM
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- James Stewart
- Donna Reed
- Lionel Barrymore
- Thomas Mitchell
- Henry Travers
- Beulah Bondi
- Frank Faylen
- Ward Bond
- Gloria Grahame
- H.B. Warner
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Great to see on the big screen!
WOW! Watched this movie on TV for years...what a marvelous experience to see it on the big screen. And yes, both my husband and I cried at the end. Perfect (early) Christmas gift.
Metacritic
It's one of those ageless movies, like Casablanca or The Third Man, that improves with age. Some movies, even good ones, should only be seen once. When we know how they turn out, they've surrendered their mystery and appeal. Other movies can be viewed an indefinite number of times. Like great music, they improve with familiarity. It's a Wonderful Life falls in the second category.

Indeed, the weakness of this picture, from this reviewer's point of view, is the sentimentality of it—its illusory concept of life. Mr. Capra's nice people are charming, his small town is a quite beguiling place and his pattern for solving problems is most optimistic and facile. But somehow they all resemble theatrical attitudes rather than average realities. And Mr. Capra's turkey dinners philosophy, while emotionally gratifying, doesn't fill the hungry paunch.
