Sunday Dec 12, 1:00 pm. FREE admission with donation of a non-perishable food item to Hamilton Food Share. Tickets must be reserved in advance ONLINE. We expect this show to be well-attended, so please COME EARLY! Doors open at 12:15
“Frank Capra’s post-war fable is a fascinating melange of social and personal impulses and the questionable charms of home. James Stewart is impeccable as George Bailey, the Bedford Falls boy-next-door whose dreams are continually deferred by the demands of family and national upset: rather than exploring and building new worlds, he runs a building society, marries and raises children. Mapping his frustrations and joys onto the contours of recent US history, It’s a Wonderful Life puts individual and group interests in tension. Denied the opportunities for individualist enterprise that are the stock in trade of American cinematic heroism, George is pulled towards communal effort and self-effacement. Yet the film’s bravura fantasy sequence, imagining the hellishly licentious Bedford Falls that would exist without George, makes the grandest possible case for the importance and uniqueness of individual agency. Funny, compelling and moving.” - TimeOut London
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