Drama · Family · Fantasy
It's a Wonderful Life
Avg rating 8.8 / My rating TBC
1946 · Directed by Frank Capra · With James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
- Classical Hollywood
- Fantasy
- Melodrama
In the small town of Bedford Falls, George Bailey runs a modest building and loan company and is known to everyone as the man who always helps. On Christmas Eve, a sudden money crisis threatens everything he has built. A warm, funny, increasingly serious American fable about community and money.
Film info
- Runtime
- 2h 11m · 131 min
- Format
- Black and white, standard Academy ratio, 131 minutes. Colourised versions exist, but the original black and white is the version to see.
- IMDb
- 8.6 / 10 (552,062 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 94% (critics)
- Metacritic
- 89 / 100
- TMDB
- 8.3 / 10 (audience, 5,081 votes)
- Trailer
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