All-time cinema classic It’s A Wonderful Life is coming to the Karralyka screen

Come down to Karralyka for morning tea and the screening of one of the all-time classic movies, It’s a Wonderful Life.

More than seven decades after its release in US cinemas, director Frank Capra’s story of a suicidal man and his nearly too-late appreciation of his sleepy, small-town existence has burrowed its way into the public consciousness as a festival feel-good movie.

It’s a Wonderful Life is widely considered not just the perennial holiday favourite, but one of the greatest films ever to be made.

This heart-warming movie, set during the Christmas season, portrays an angel-in-training who answers the prayer of a kind-hearted but despondent George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart).

Beset by problems and on the verge of ending it all, he is given a glimpse of what his home town would be like without his benevolent presence. He decides to return home to the friends and family who hold him dear just in time for Christmas. Movie magic.

Brimming with goodwill, the film deftly balances subjects of love, family, friendship, fleeting youth, war, death, poverty, and whether there exists a higher power.

Nominated for five Academy Awards and cited by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 best American films ever made, this film has endeared itself to all who’ve seen it.

Simply put, this is one of those rare films that loses none of its power with the passing of time, or if you’ve seen it 100 times. It’ll be sure to warm the cockles of your heart.

Morning tea will be offered from 9.45am and the screening will commence at 10.30am on Tuesday 19 June.

Tickets cost $11.

Book online

For further information phone the box office on 9870 2888.