“Every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings.” It’s A Wonderful Life is a beloved Christmas classic, but like most great films, it took some time for it to be appreciated. It has become Frank Capra’s signature film, and epitomizes his populist film style. Jimmy Stewart once again teams up with Capra and gives a career performance as the small town hero George Bailey, who in a moment of despair contemplates suicide, but a visit from an angle who shows him what the world would’ve been like without him changes his mind. The story starts in a strikingly dark place (for a Christmas film), which has the effect of making the climatic ending all the more powerful and heartwarming. While It’s A Wonderful Life has been retold many times in many ways, nothing beats the original.
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“Every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings.” It’s A Wonderful Life is a beloved Christmas classic, but like most great films, it took some time for it to be appreciated. It has become Frank Capra’s signature film, and epitomizes his populist film style. Jimmy Stewart once again teams up with Capra and gives a career performance as the small town hero George Bailey, who in a moment of despair contemplates suicide, but a visit from an angle who shows him what the world would’ve been like without him changes his mind. The story starts in a strikingly dark place (for a Christmas film), which has the effect of making the climatic ending all the more powerful and heartwarming. While It’s A Wonderful Life has been retold many times in many ways, nothing beats the original.