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Synopsis: It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet The Greatest Gift, which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1943.[2] The film is now among the most popular in American cinema and because of numerous television showings in the 1980s has become traditional viewing during the Christmas season. The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his dreams in order to help others, and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and how different life in his community of Bedford Falls would be had he never been born.
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Actors: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
Production: Liberty Films
  Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
8.6
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Rotten Tomatoes:
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PG
Year:
1946
130 min
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ZUZU:

Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets

his wings.

GEORGE (smiling)

That's right, that's right.

He looks up toward the ceiling and winks.

GEORGE (cont'd)

Attaboy, Clarence.

The voices of the people singing swell into a final crescendo for

the

FADE OUT:

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Albert Hackett

Albert Maurice Hackett (February 16, 1900 – March 16, 1995) was an American dramatist and screenwriter most noted for his collaborations with his partner and wife Frances Goodrich. more…

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