PREVIEW: It's A Wonderful Life

This ultimate feel-good festive favourite.  From Oscar-winning director Frank Capra, stars James Stewart as despairing businessmen George Bailey. One fateful Christmas Eve, George receives a visit from Clarence, a celestial messenger, who prevents him from jumping into a freezing river. The pair travel together through moments in George’s life to show him what the world would be like if he had never existed. A genuinely tender and enduring piece of yuletide cinema.

Capra’s post-war fable is a fascinating melange of social and personal impulses and the questionable charms of home.

It's A Wonderful Life is an enjoyable film and loved by all who see it.  Last year it topped the Radio Times Christmas Film list.

If you haven't seen this film all you need to do is that this classic is both sweet and knowing.  You will love its engaging story that takes on the human condition in all its complexity. The screenplay is witty and the film has a grand old score. Make sure you come and see it in its original, glorious black and white form. 

*You'd have to possess a very hard heart not to find something to love in this story.* Film4

*Although peppered with colourful, sharply drawn characters, this is Stewart's movie, instantly loveable as a small town dreamer who sacrifices everything for others. His journey to despair and back warms the cockles like little else. Enjoy it in a cinema so you can sob among others.* Empire

Watch the trailer here:

Catch it only at The Guildhall on Saturday 22nd December at 7.45pm