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It's a Wonderful Life (1946): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 drama, fantasy film directed by Frank Capra. It scores 8.6 on IMDb, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, 89 on Metacritic, 8.3 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 3 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 1 of 82 films from 1946 in our catalog and number 10 of 3,595 drama films.
Billed cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi.
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More from Frank Capra
It Happened One Night (1934) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) You Can't Take It with You (1938) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Lost Horizon (1937) All Frank Capra films
More drama films of the 1940s
Casablanca (1943) Citizen Kane (1941) Bicycle Thieves (1948) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Children of Paradise (1945) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Late Spring (1949)
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