Classic Friday : It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) 9/10

Starring : James Stewart, Donna Reed, Henry Travers
Director : Frank Capra
Running Time : 131 mins

George Bailey (Stewart) has spent his whole life in Bedford Falls, despite his dream to travel around the world. He’s given up everything for his family and community, putting their wishes before his own, but when $8.000 goes missing from his business, George decides to take the blame and kill himself so that he can pay off the debt with his life insurance. Wishing he’d never been born, George meets Clarence (Travers), an angel who shows him what life would have been like if his dream had come true.

This is such a timeless movie, which would have got a score of ten out of ten if it wasn’t so long! It’s hard to believe that a movie that’s over sixty could run for almost two and a quarter hours. Still, the similarities to Dickens’ Christmas Carol aside, this is a great movie that shows how being selfless might sometimes feel like it’s wrecking your life, but in reality these actions are making you a much better person.

You’ll like this if you liked : A Christmas Carol