Chichester Cinema at New Park
It's a Wonderful Life
Sunday Classic Cinema:
The holiday gift for all time. This heart-warming fantasy, one of the most popular films ever made, begins as angels discuss George Bailey (James Stewart), a small-town resident so beset with problems that he contemplates a Christmas-time suicide.
In flashback, we review George’s life, learning that he has always wanted to leave his hometown to see the world, but that circumstances and his own good heart have kept him in Bedford Falls, sacrificing his own education for his brother’s, keeping the family-run savings and loan afloat, protecting the town from the avarice of banker Potter (Lionel Barrymore), marrying his childhood sweetheart (Donna Reed), and raising a family. Back in the present, George prepares to jump from a bridge...
Apart from Frank Capra’s 1946 masterpiece being the ideal Christmas family film, it now has an added topical relevance in its battle with the individual against banking avarice.
USA · 1946 · Frank Capra · 129min
