![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The truth is that It’s a Wonderful Life is both darker and more subversive than its popular reputation as cheery holiday “Capra-corn” would suggest, and more robustly hopeful than cynics and hipster deconstructionists would have it. A flop in its original release, rediscovered (in the wake of a fortuitous lapse in copyright) on television in the 1970s, embraced as a holiday staple by the 1980s, and finally enshrined as an untouchable classic, it was inevitable that Frank Capra’s crowning achievement should become a target of iconoclastic reevaluations: some take-downs, some perverse reinterpretations.
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