—
Night Hunter
Film
FilmPG1946
It's a Wonderful Life
Directed by Frank Capra
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin. From TMDB
198 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
—
No Data
Sentiment labels for these sources are still being hand-checked; no score yet.
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 32 | 6 | 114 |
| Mastodon * | 6 | 0 | 33 |
| TMDB reviews * | 7 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
What people are saying
A written summary appears once the title has a score.
At a glance
It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 drama family fantasy film, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore.
- 167 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
- posts span Aug 18, 2019 to Nov 3, 2026
Assembled from TMDB, Wikidata and Steam fields and our own counts, nothing written by a model. Method
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
198 public posts have mentioned It's a Wonderful Life so far, but it needs 10 opinionated reactions from checked sources before it gets a score. Seen it? Post your take.
The Experts
90%
avg of 3 sources
The People
—
audience score
Reactions
60 of 198 · most liked first"It's A Wonderful Life" isn't just a feel-good holiday classic (and my favorite movie of all time). It's also a warning about what happens when greed runs the economy.
positive · AI labelView post →My favorite movie of all In the movie "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE " Jimmy Stewart's character George Bailey says "I wish I had a million dollars hee-haw" Well, if I had a million dollars I would buy each one of YOU one of these Tis the Season 🌲 ❤️🌲
neutral · AI labelView post →It's A Wonderful Life is a Christmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a Wonderful Life premiered on Dec. 20, 1946. Steven Spielberg said of the film, "It’s a Wonderful Life shows that every human being on this Earth matters -- and that’s a very powerful message."
neutral · AI labelView post →Are you watching the Oscars tonight? I wanted to share some thoughts about one of my favorite movies (and the important lesson I learned from it): It's A Wonderful Life. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQDjyZWw_A4
positive · AI labelView post →IT'S A WONDERFUL ESSAY: The last few days before Christmas is when people usually tend to rewatch 'It's a Wonderful Life.' Can I commend to you this really superb essay we published a few years ago? It could change the way you understand that movie. www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
neutral · AI labelView post →The film IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE was released 78 years ago this week. The name 'It's A Wonderful Life' (Rose of the Year 2022) is used with the permission of Melange Pictures LLC all rights reserved. It's A Wonderful Life TM © Melange Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved. Have a nice day! #roseadvent 🌱
neutral · AI labelView post →As is our Christmas tradition, we watched "It's a Wonderful Life" this weekend. After reading this piece, it had a completely different message. The power of women in our lives... www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
positive · AI labelView post →HOLIDAY FILM IDEA: It's a Wonderful Life, but with an angel showing Donald Trump how much better off everyone would be if he had never been born.
neutral · AI labelView post →HOLIDAY FILM IDEA: It's a Wonderful Life, but with an angel showing Donald Trump how much better off everyone would be if he'd never been born.
neutral · AI labelView post →We're showing the kids It's a Wonderful Life for the first time, and I got to pause the movie and explain that Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street were named after the characters from It's a Wonderful Life
neutral · AI labelView post →We're doing an Advent calendar of iconic Christmas movie dresses and we're kicking things off with Donna Reed's dutiful wife frock in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and how it highlighted the film's themes, time and place: tomandlorenzo.com/2025/12/chri...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a Wonderful Life is a Christmas movie. Fight me.
neutral · AI labelView post →Of course the mensch-iest of film critics is going to be essential reading on the mensch-iest of directors. Don't miss the ending, in which Matt imagines, It's a Wonderful Life-style, how impoverished the last few decades in Hollywood would have been without the influence & the generosity of Reiner.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is at heart the same plot driving every Christmas film from It's a Wonderful Life (Jimmy Stewart is so wrapped up in his work he's about to kill himself because it betrayed him) to Jingle All the Way (where Arnold's journey simultaneously satirizes and celebrate Christmas's capitalist bent)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tis the Season 🌲 In a world of tRump, Musk and rotten Broligarchs... They are all MR POTTER BE A GEORGE BAILEY 🎄 (movie It's a Wonderful Life)
neutral · AI labelView post →I co-wrote a book of essays about the movie It's A Wonderful Life with @emilystjams.bsky.social! It's out in September. Pre-order it here! www.harpercollins.com/products/eve...
positive · AI labelView post →This is a thing I'm writing about in the It's a Wonderful Life book. This era in American film is interesting because so much of it is influenced the attempt to suppress the intense trauma of World War II, due to societal expectations. Maybe worth considering how many presidents were born into that.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a Wonderful Life is certainly a very humanist, compassionate movie but anyway saying it's somehow 'socialist' has literally reduced 'socialism' to 'rich people bad' which is a case of 'yes but there's more going on here kate'
positive · AI labelView post →Stephan's Quintet – a visual grouping of five galaxies of which four form the first compact galaxy group ever discovered. You may recognize these galaxies from the film, "It's A Wonderful Life", where they were used to symbolize angels.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's A Wonderful Life is an extremely dark film.
positive · AI labelView post →Watched It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and shout out to Lillian Randolph for the funniest line of the entire film. This diva.
positive · AI labelView post →Here's my yearly reminder: All of "Die Hard" takes place at Christmas. Entire thing. 100%. Only 1/5th of "It's a Wonderful Life" takes place at Christmas. If "Die Hard" is not a Christmas movie, "It's a Wonderful Life" is DEFINITELY not a Christmas movie. (which, for the record, I think it is)
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey folks, did you know "It's a Wonderful Life" was a film designed to spread Communist propaganda? The writers wanted to "discredit bankers" by making the banker a "scrooge-type" and the "most hated man in the picture." Only Commies do this shit!* 🗃️📽️ (*said the FBI in the Cominfil investigations!)
neutral · AI labelView post →IT'S A WONDERFUL ESSAY: It seems people usually rewatch 'It's a Wonderful Life' just before Christmas. Can I commend to you this marvelous essay we published a few years ago? It could change the way you understand that classic movie. www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my all-time best movie experiences was watching IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE with my kids a few years ago, and feeling their awe at just how captivating, rich and incredibly moving it is.
positive · AI labelView post →Wrote another book about one of my favorite movies with @laurentheisen.bsky.social, and it's OUT at the END of SEPTEMBER. Including thoughts on: -It's a Wonderful Life as Frank Capra's apotheosis -WWII PTSD -IAWL's politics -Bert & Ernie: gay??? Preorder here: www.harpercollins.com/products/eve...
positive · AI labelView post →Watching "It's A Wonderful Life" and the movie is a living testament to the value of unsubtlety in cinema.
positive · AI labelView post →My favourite in the "false attribution" genre remains "Franz Kafka's 'It's a Wonderful Life' ". Peter Capaldi apparently had a slip of the tongue and then decided he had to make the film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Broke: Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Woke: It's a Wonderful Life isn't a Christmas movie. Bespoke: Picnic at Hanging Rock is a Valentine's Day movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →For an actual answer to the initial prompt..... It's a Wonderful Life is perhaps the greatest American film ever made, brimming with beautiful messages about the need to accept others and build community. And it was made by an arch-conservative paranoiac driven by recrimination and hatred!
positive · AI labelView post →Movie too few people have seen? Tokyo Godfathers. Classic that isn't watched as much anymore? The Lion in Winter. Newest movie that deserves more eyeballs? The Apology. Movie everybody's seen but people are too negative about? It's A Wonderful Life.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite movie about an angel that bites cops.
positive · AI labelView post →I find it funny how people fight over whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas film, when It's a Wonderful Life has almost nothing to do with it until the last 35 minutes & it's considered the quintessential Christmas film Die Hard literally takes place on Christmas & has so many references to it
neutral · AI labelView post →This is just the It's a Wonderful Life movie poster.
neutral · AI labelView post →i have seen 2 separate people recently refer to the muppet christmas movie as "underrated". everyone every year constantly talks about how they love this film lol. yeah, here's another underground holiday hit: It's a Wonderful Life
neutral · AI labelView post →Now, while I'm not in the "Die Hard is a Xmas movie" camp, that technically means that It's a Wonderful Life isn't a Christmas movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →It's A Wonderful Life description on Sky. New: a group of popstars in a grim desert film add song-and-dance numbers to spice up the sand-and-sandals drama.
neutral · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) By Laurent Durieux
neutral · AI labelView post →Thursday movie: It's a Wonderful Life (1946) *****
positive · AI labelView post →No darker movie ever made than It's A Wonderful Life
positive · AI labelView post →i'm watching It's A Wonderful Life for the first time and sad about how morally relevant this film still is. and crying at how Hollywood gives happy endings because real life doesn't
positive · AI labelView post →New essay! Don't come for me with "It's a Wonderful Life" hate. I will defend this movie forever.
positive · AI labelView post →Time Out London says Die Hard is the second greatest Xmas film of all time. The first is It's a Wonderful Life. The third is Elf. Obviously, I approve.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's almost Eyes Wide Shut holiday screening days. The way it replaced It's A Wonderful Life as the go-to family christmas film is a triumph of not just cinema, but cinéastes themselves.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's A Wonderful Life celebrating its 80th anniversary this year which means that when I was a toddler it was a 30-year old movie. My brain just can't fully process this.
neutral · AI labelView post →Los Angeles!! Screen Drafts fans!! Join @laurentheisen.bsky.social and me at Village Well in Culver City on October 2 to talk Every Time a Bell Rings, our new book on It's a Wonderful Life! We'll be joined by the GREAT Darren Franich! www.eventbrite.com/e/film-book-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Hi BBCPM, in your headline you just said, of the film #Digger, "How do you market a dud?" Are you happy to label this film a dud? They said something similar about Citizen Kane, It's A Wonderful Life, etc, which you still show decades after they are released.
neutral · AI labelView post →This person was a film major and we were talking about It's A Wonderful Life or Casablanca or something like that, not anything deliberately exclusionary or obscure Anyway it's very easy to Google "top 50 documentaries" and watch a few before attempting to pass genre edicts
neutral · AI labelView post →"You know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000??" Perhaps the saddest, most evergreen quote in movie history. #ItsAWonderfulLife #Christmas
neutral · AI labelView post →Tired: DIE HARD is a Christmas movie Wired: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is a movie about economics.
neutral · AI labelView post →Add a word, ruin a movie It's A Wonderful Life Coach
neutral · AI labelView post →It's A Wonderful Life is a Die Hard movie
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a Wonderful Life: the movie where an angel bites a cop.
neutral · AI labelView post →EVERYONE!! 🤠 Remember, George: No man is a failure who has friends. ~ Clarence (Henry Travers) in “It’s a Wonderful Life” #Quote #FilmSky #ItsAWonderfulLife #Friends
neutral · AI labelView post →Really excited to see the movie about him that's coming up. He seemed to be a goodun. And It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite movie.
positive · AI labelView post →For my own part, It's A Wonderful Life remains my favorite black and white movie. And the reason for it is that it made a big change in my life.
positive · AI labelView post →we did it! after half a year my community has finished our movie club list of 50 "must watch" movies! I feel so cultured and educated haha Stand out greats were The Thing, Harakiri, and It's a Wonderful Life. Surprised by Brokeback Mountain and The Notebook! Really loved both. I love movies!!!
positive · AI labelView post →Ha, right? The movie, I'm realizing, is like a bizarre mashup of Hellraiser and It's a Wonderful Life. The movie entreats us to the same kind of visual language as alternate universe Pottersville, all decrepit and run down. bsky.app/profile/ed-n...
neutral · AI labelView post →A really great James Stewart movie that is not 'It's A Wonderful Life':
neutral · AI labelView post →
Posts are quoted from public profiles with links to the original. Want yours removed? Contact us.
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
