| View Larger Image | It's a Wonderful Life [Blu-ray] | Blu-rayStarring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers
Directed By: Frank Capra
Also With: Frank Capra (Producer), Frank Capra (Writer), Albert Hackett (Writer), Frances Goodrich (Writer), Jo Swerling (Writer), Michael Wilson (Writer), Philip Van Doren Stern (Writer)
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| | Binding: | Blu-ray | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 130 minutes | | Format: | Black & White, Color, Dubbed, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen | | Studio: | Paramount | | Number of Discs: | 2 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | November 03, 2009 | | Sales Rank: | 228th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
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George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all – and it’s Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn’t been for all of his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget suicide? |
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Now perhaps the most beloved American film, It's a Wonderful Life was largely forgotten for years, due to a copyright quirk. Only in the late 1970s did it find its audience through repeated TV showings. Frank Capra's masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the American cinema, a multilayered work of Dickensian density. George Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) grows up in the small town of Bedford Falls, dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf. Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born. The sequence is a vivid depiction of the American Dream gone bad, and probably the wildest thing Capra ever shot (the director's optimistic vision may have darkened during his experiences making military films in World War II). Capra's triumph is to acknowledge the difficulties and disappointments of life, while affirming--in the teary-eyed final reel--his cherished values of friendship and individual achievement. It's a Wonderful Life was not a big hit on its initial release, and it won no Oscars (Capra and Stewart were nominated); but it continues to weave a special magic. --Robert Horton |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 534 reviews)
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This is a BLU-RAY REVIEW ONLY!!!! (from public domain to blu-ray WOW!, it was worth the wait(explained))!!! by forrie lowell  5 Stars
November 18, 2009
This 1946 CLASSIC FILM copy write expired and went to the Public Domain library. For years on VHS a very poor copy was available. But the film was sooooo good we endured the poor quality for the "WONDERFUL LIFE's" message was heard loud and clear.
NOW for the FIRST time it has been brought up to the Blu-ray HD (1080p). With the HD Home Theater (BIG SCREEN) w/Dolby Digital sound I', telling you this movie is NOW THE WAY IT WAS MENT TO BE SEEN IN THE MOVIE THEATER in 1946!!! (Better then the original 35mm prints).
BONUS: This Blu-ray (2 disc set) Edition includes 2 HD versions of this MUST HAVE Movie. Disc 1. - The COLORIZED version (my favorite version, especially in HD. The color adds to the grand detail of the clarity ie. Jimmy Stewarts tweed jacket.
On the big Home Theater screen you won't believe how Wonderful the picture is!!!!
And the sound is awesome!!!!
Disc 2 - Is the Original Black & White version. A very good but much darker version which in my opinion mutes the HD details. Still this HD Classic film delivers. All extra features are also on this disc.
NOTE: This Blu-ray edition includes all the extras of the Standard DVD version.
BOTTOMLINE: THIS MOVIE IS A MUST HAVE. BELIEVE ME, YOU and YOUR FAMILY WILL BE TOTALLY DELIGHTED and Pleased to see and hear for the first time what a "WONDERFUL LIFE" this was and is!!!! ENJOY!!!
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Blu-ray version looks great! by James (Dallas, TX USA) 5 Stars
November 07, 2009
The newly-released blu ray version of the film looks wonderful - great contrasts, very clear picture, especially in the B&W version. (The disc comes with both the color and B&W versions). The picture is in its original aspect ratio 1.33:1, so it is shown in pillarbox (black bars on the sides of the display). The true videophiles will appreciate that nothing was cropped from the original image.
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Amazon please stop listing reviews of the DVD on the BluRay page!!! If I wanted a review of the DVD I would go to that page. by Outrageous (CT)  1 Stars
November 05, 2009
Amazon please stop listing reviews of the DVD on the BluRay page!!! If I wanted a review of the DVD I would go to that page.
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Amazon Please Stop by B. Scott 1 Stars
November 05, 2009
Amazon please stop listing reviews of the DVD on the BluRay page!!! If I wanted a review of the DVD I would go to that page.
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Need a sixth star for this movie; by justicescale.org (Colorado) 5 Stars
September 12, 2009
In my view there are three really great movies:
1) Wonderful Life - especially this newly re-worked version in color
(ohhhhhhh........ Donna Reed as a young girl........ what a dream !!)
(Much like the woman I married :) )
2) Gone With the Wind - Scarlette my love !
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Life is very hard and painful for a lot of people in the US today
and because the US middle class has been gutted they have no money
to buy the things developing countries make and the crisis
is worse in those countries as a result.
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However, there is always having faith in God as a choice (yes or no).
It's always a choice......... essentially "to be" or..... "not to be".
These are the same choice.
When we have nothing else but faith which enables the possibility of hope
then we have nothing else and nothing else.
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It's that simple.
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