It's a Wonderful Life - Holiday Film

Past event
Dec 7, 2024, 7 to 8:30 PM

On Saturday, December 7 at 7pm SVA will screen holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life, a 1946 American Christmas supernatural drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet The Greatest Gift self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol.

The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his personal dreams in order to help others in his community and whose thoughts of suicide and existential crisis on Christmas Eve bring about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he touched and what the world would be like if he did not exist.

George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all – and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence – who then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all his good deeds over the years.

Suggested donation $5.00

The film will be followed by a discussion.

All films are supported by Kanopy in partnership with the Castleton Free Library.

Refreshments will be provided.

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, help is available:
- National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: call 988 or text 988
- Veterans Crisis Line & Military Crisis Line: call 988, press 1
- LGTBQ crisis line: call 1-866-488-7386 or text 678678
- Crisis Text Line: text "VT" to 741-741
- Resources with the Vermont Suicide Prevention Center

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