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Release Date: 1946   Duration: 118 min

Cast: Henry Travers, Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi, H. B. Warner, Sheldon Leonard, Charles Lane, Todd Karns, Argentina Brunetti, Mary Treen, Virginia Patton, Ward Bond, Gloria Grahame ...MORE

Cast: Henry Travers, Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi, H. B. Warner, Sheldon Leonard, Charles Lane, Todd Karns, Argentina Brunetti, Mary Treen, Virginia Patton, Ward Bond, Gloria Grahame, James Stewart, Frank Faylen, Thomas Mitchell, Donna Reed ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Drama, Family Film, Fantasy, Christmas movie, Holiday Film

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story "The Greatest Gift", written by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1939, and privately published by the author in 1945. The film is considered one of the most loved films in American cinema, and has become traditional viewing during the Christmas season, alongside popular...  MORE

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story "The Greatest Gift", written by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1939, and privately published by the author in 1945. The film is considered one of the most loved films in American cinema, and has become traditional viewing during the Christmas season, alongside popular classics such as Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Released in 1946, 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. Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and how different life in his community would be had he never been born. Despite initially performing poorly at the box office due to high production costs and stiff competition at the time of its release, the film has come to be regarded as a classic and is a staple of Christmas television around the world. Theatrically, the film's break-even point was actually $6.3 million, approximately twice the production cost, a figure it never came close to achieving in its initial release. An appraisal in 2006 reported: "Although it was not the complete box office failure that today everyone believes ... it was initially a major disappointment and confirmed, at least to the studios, that Capra was no longer capable of turning out the populist features that made his films the must-see, money-making events they once were." LESS