It's a Christmas classic! Tickets for this screening are FREE with a donation of a non-perishable iterm
“The only Yuletide favourite to pivot around an attempted suicide, 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
This screening is in partnership with The Food Bank of Waterloo Region. Admissions for this screening are FREE with a donation of a non-perishable. Please sign up - this screening will sell out!