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  • Heaven Can Wait

    December 20, 2005

    Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life has come to be regarded as an American movie classic. But when the film was first released, James Agee, The Nation's film critic at the time, was skeptical. Though Agee praised the actors--particularly James Stewart--he cast a hard eye on the film's reflexive sentimentalizing of moral issues and heaped scorn on Hollywood's treacly idea of the life after death.

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