It’s a wonderful life (1946)
April 25th, 2008
“Look Daddy, teacher says ‘every time a bell rings and Angel gets its wings”. One of the true family film classics, where a distraught businessman encounters difficulty in his business and ends up in despair during Christmas Eve. An angel shows up and takes him through what could be his life if the decisions he’d have made in life were any different resulting in one of the best movies of all time. Though set in Christmas, the film was actually shot in the middle of a terrible heat wave that caused more than just sweat so the director had to give the crew and cast a day off so they don’t get the flu. The movie didn’t earn much, just a bit over the slated budget but subsequent reviews discovered the true talent and creativity that went into the film it was ranked the 20th Greatest Movie of all time.