Saturday, February 21, 2009
It's a Wonderful Life (DVD)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Henry Travers. If you've watched this movie during the Christmas season when it shows up on broadcast TV, you'll notice on the DVD the improved quality of the image, the lack of constant commercial interruptions, and the fact that scenes haven't been left out to fit into a time slot. If you're like me, you'll turn on the subtitles and catch all the dialogue you've been missing, too. This sentimental favorite delivers the tears and laughter every time, and who can deny its charm? Stewart stars as George Bailey, frustrated small-town banker, who thinks all is lost and contemplates taking his own life. An angel named Clarence (Travers) is sent down to show him what the world would have been like without him, and Stewart expertly plays the man who finds that his world has dissolved. Grade: A-
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The best movie. This movie was a box office flop. I never understood why. It resurfaced one Christmas and now is considered a classic.
Actors are great, especially, James Stewart. This movie lets you realize how different life could be for people around you if you weren't alive.
Tears, laughter, and a man trying so hard to leave his small town to pursue bigger plans and for one reason or another his leaving is contantly delayed. He stays for years and yet is still so good to everyone, but because of mishandling of money by his uncle, he finds himself in despair. Through his conscience/angel he finds out how life would have been without him.
His family and friends all come to his aid; he truly realizes that he has wonderful life afterall and he is the riches man in town.
Grade: A
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