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Genres:
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Comedy /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Frank Capra
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Actors:
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Mischa Auer,
Edward Arnold,
Jean Arthur,
Lionel Barrymore,
James Stewart,
Ann Miller,
Spring Byington,
Samuel S. Hinds,
Donald Meek,
H.B. Warner
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Duration:
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126 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)88.5
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Plot Summary:
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Alice Sycamore, the but common person from a zany subdivision falls in passion with her boss, Tony Kirby, but the relation breaks up, when during a dinner at her home, the sporting house is raided by the regulate and everyone is arrested on suspicion of anarchism.
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You Can't Take it With You
How true that is. And how revealing. Capra is at his most mawkish here, with James Stewart, the son of a munitions...
You Can't Take it With You
Frank Capra's most successful comedies are time criticised in favour of being too sentimental. Beneath that sugar coating come what may, there's often a deeper suspense. More than merely championing the guy on the path to elation, his film's worldview can be far downwards cynical, seeing the separate as a cipher in the gears of big vigour, a fate which at best the stars (notably Jimmy Stewart) ultimately manage to escape here. Central to You Can't Take It With You is the liberated figure of Martin Vanderhof (Barrymore), rule of an curious hospice where family and friends solitary busy in pursuits they find personally rewarding. But menacing his utopia is Anthony P Kirby (Arnold), a Trendy York financier steadfast on buying up the characteristic to assemble a ...
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