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It's a Wonderful Life
By Michelle Granaghan
21, Nov 2008 - 19:51

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Westport Film Club is delighted to show a real Christmas classic for our December film.
It's a Wonderful Life is the 1946 film that has survived all this long time and back on the big screen in the Westport Cineplex on Wednesday 3rd December at 8:45pm.
Admission €5 Members, €10 non members
                   
It's A Wonderful Life, originally made for Liberty Films, is one of the most popular and heartwarming films ever made by director Frank Capra. Frank Capra regarded this film as his own personal favorite - it was also James Stewart's favorite of all his feature films.

The film's screenplay  was based on "The Greatest Gift," an original short story first written on a Christmas card by Philip Van Doren Stern. It is actually a dark, bittersweet post-war tale of a savings and loan manager who struggles against a greedy banker and his own self-doubting nature in a small town. Earnest do-gooder George Bailey (James Stewart) recognizes his life as wonderful and truly rich, even in its humdrum and bleak nature, only after suffering many hardships, mishaps and fateful trials. He is given encouragement by a whimsical, endearing, trainee-angel named Clarence.
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The story turns Dickensian (similar to A Christmas Carol, although told from Bob Cratchit's point-of-view rather than from Scrooge's) when the hysterical, despairing, and melancholy family man is shown what the small town  would be like without him. It's a frightening, nightmarish, noirish view of the world that brings him back from self-destruction. He returns to the idyllic, small-town world that he left, with renewed faith and confidence in life itself. Hence, the film's title: It's a Wonderful Life.
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