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13 December 2007
"Frank," said Jimmy Stewart to Frank Capra before they made this classic hometown tale, "if you want to make a movie about me committing suicide, with an angel with no wings called Clarence, I'm your boy!"
How right he was - the pair's first movie after returning home from the war has become more popular than anything else Capra did.
Whatever you think of the essentially homespun sentiment, this is a sincere and ultimately affecting movie that can be seen again and again, especially around this time of year when similar anxieties hit us before the big celebration.
It's A Wonderful Life
Cert: U
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