Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life has got, as they say in the motion picture business, legs. Although the warm ‘n’ fuzzy Christmas season movie was not a critical or commercial success upon first release in 1947, repeated showings on television over subsequent decades caused it to grow, and grow, and grow on American audiences, who basked in its small-town charm, humor and easygoing morality.
Its story of one man’s eventual understanding that he is loved, more loved than he’s ever realized, has resonated through subsequent generations.
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