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what is the movie it's a wonderful life about
It's a Wonderful Life is about angel sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
who directed it's a wonderful life
It's a Wonderful Life was produced and directed by Frank Capra
what is the movie it's a wonderful life based on
It's a Wonderful Life was based on the short story and booklet The Greatest Gift, which Philip Van Doren Stern wrote in 1939 and published privately in 1943.
who wrote the screenplay for it's a wonderful life
The screenplay for It's a Wonderful Life was written by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, and Frank Capra

Question: when was the film released
Self-contained rewrite: when was the film it's a wonderful life released