coachscott The core messages of this film is simple: (1) relationships that we have with others are key to our happiness and (2) follow your bliss.It is an important film to watch with your children then discuss afterward. It is an important film to watch with your potential spouse then discuss afterward. The values in this film are as more critical today as we face increasing pressure to create the perfect external circumstance for life than they were 80 years ago before the information age.

Hitchcoc This is real hoot. It started out as a Broadway play which had huge success and continues to this day. This is a Frank Capra film which integrates a cast of quirky, fun people who have made a commitment to have likes of great joy. Capra felt positive about America and felt that we needed to hang together and not see money as the be all and end all. Of course, there is a foil here, a capitalist who becomes softened by joy. James Stewart, one of my two or three favorite actors is pursuing Jean Arthur and their scenes are priceless. Many years ago, I went to a show, featuring Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller. Miller is priceless in her incredible ability to tap. We were astonished by this seventy something who absolutely amazed everyone. See the movie just for these people. Things are rough right now for me and I sense a real cloud hanging over our nation. We need to depend on a treasure like this to life out spirits.

elvircorhodzic YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU The film is a romantic comedy that at times treated very serious topic. The rich snobs against wacky, eccentric but, it seems to me very nice people. Conflict of family, property and way of thinking. Meeting of two different social categories shaken "most beautiful" thing in the world - love. My impression is that most Capra's protagonist finds happiness in small things. Of course, there must be a difference between a good and successful man. These little things may act strange, but certainly not negligible. Source of happiness and satisfaction is at hand, only it needs to be open.Martin "Grandpa" Vanderhof's (Lionel Barrymore) house is the film's utopian space. All are happy and satisfied, somewhat eccentric and definitely crazy. Of course, everyone is doing only what they want. Penny Sycamore (Spring Byington), Vanderhof's daughter, writes plays because a typewriter was accidentally sent to the house eight years ago. Her daughter, Essie Carmichael (Ann Miller), practices dance even though she exhibits no talent for it. Ed Carmichael (Dub Taylor), Essie's husband, plays xylophone in order to accompany her dancing. The house in which all are welcome. The basement is the right valley of creativity.Important segments of the story are the government and capital. One individual resists both. Grandpa Martin Vanderhof is incredibly calm and positive character and he "protest" in a specific way. You Can't Take It With You also subtly links class with gender. Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur), of the lower middle-class, is engaged to Tony Kirby (James Stewart), son of millionaire. This proportion is slightly idealized. How important vision is? The vision is temporary? At different moments of most of the characters accept the truth in this or that way. For this reason I do not like the idyllic ending of the film. I convinced myself that this is a romantic comedy.Capra has again been very careful with cinematography, framing and dialogue. Acting is at a high level. Of course Lionel Barrymore is masterly. The film is a good way out of the dark for two hours. It's very funny.

gavin6942 A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.Frank Capra has a certain sensibility that people associate with him. And that sensibility you expect will certainly be evident here. This is like a cross between his "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Arsenic and Old Lace". The eccentric scenes are great, with dancing and music for no real reason. There is a discussion of income taxes and what good they serve. (Keep in mind income tax started around 1913, so people of the time knew an era without it.) And best of all, we have a rat. A rat with hair on it. That cracked me up pretty hard.