You Can't Take It With You (1938)

You Can't Take It With You
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Director: Frank Capra
Actors: James Stewart, Dub Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Ann Miller, Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Spring Byington, Mary Forbes, Halliwell Hobbes, Mischa Auer, Samuel S. Hinds, H.B. Warner, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lillian Yarbo, Donald Meek

Winner of 2 Academy Awards

Academy Award winner James Stewart (1940 Best Actor, The Philadelphia Story and 1985 Honorary Oscar), Jean Arthur, Academy Award winner Lionel Barrymore (1931 Best Actor, A Free Soul) and Edward Arnold star in this classic screwball comedy. Based on the phenomenally successful Kaufman-Hart play, You Can't Take It With You was directed by Frank Capra and won two Academy Awards (1938 Best Picture, Best Director) and garnered five more nominations. It was Capra's third Oscar for directing.

Arthur stars as Alice Sycamore, the stable family member of an offbeat clan of free spirits who falls for Stewart, the down-to-earth son of a snooty, wealthy family. Amidst a backdrop of confusion, the two very different families rediscover the simple joys of life.

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Run time: 121mins
Origin: UNITED STATES
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Member Reviews (4)

4 Member Reviews
Art S.
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One of the Capra films I never saw in my youth. Seeing it now provides mixed feelings. On the one hand, it is easy to ride the wave of populist support for the iconoclastic common man, especially insofar as the foe is unfeeling big business. On the other hand, it is hard to take Capra's sentimental manipulations at times and the pay-off seems less well-earned than in some of his other films. But truly Lionel Barrymore is great as the folksy Grandpa Vanderhof who disarms the profit-motivated Edward Arnold. Won Best Picture and Best Director Oscars.
Posted Tuesday, 7 August 2012 See my other reviews
Jennifer T.
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Bits were okay, but mostly it was just really irritating. "Eccentric" characters with hearts of gold, going up against big business. No need to watch this to know what happens.
Posted Friday, 26 March 2010 See my other reviews
Deirdre R.
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A thoroughly enjoyable feel-good flick. Rather like a combination of The Castle and It's a Wonderful Life. The only annoyance was the eternal, infernal dancing of Ann Miller's character - a little overdone.
Posted Sunday, 4 May 2008 See my other reviews
Margaret F.
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Great old movie a bit over the top in parts but the excellent actors Jimmy Stewart, Lionel Barrymor and Jean Arhtur make it enjoyable
Posted Saturday, 7 July 2007 See my other reviews