Another seasonal outing for this Christmas classic. It's a clever reinvention of A Christmas Carol that to my eyes at least remains as charming as ever. Like Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, I will forever associate Stewart with the role of George Bailey - a would-be traveller who never quite manages to leave Bedford Falls while helping his community to get on in life, and eventually needs the help of his own guardian angel.Capra has by now thoroughly mastered his craft for comedy-dramas with a deeper meaning of the inherent goodness of the everyman.
It's also ageless with almost no scenes feeling superfluous - only perhaps the exception of the swimming pool one feeling a little misjudged (even if it does set up the romance between Stewart and Reed's characters). Reed makes the perfect girl next door by the way - characterful and beautiful.
Verdict: Christmas classic.
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