Best Holiday Film Sweet Seventeen: It's a Wonderful Life (4) vs Planes, Trains and Automobiles (13)

[Chris]

It’s a Wonderful Life
Release Date: December 20, 1946
Directed by: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Ward Bond, Frank Faylen, Gloria Grahame
Plot: An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.



VS

Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Release Date: November 25, 1987
Directed by: John Hughes
Starring: Steve Martin, John Candy
Plot: A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion.
​

 

[Marty McFourth]

Hard choice seeing these two up against each other but John Candy is an instant sell for me, and I think I just enjoy the movie more on a personal level. I enjoy pretty much all of John Hughes' movies.

Hilarious movie.

 

[Chris]

Not to tough for me bc I rank wonderful life in my top movies of all time period, both great tho

 

[Comrade Khan]

Gotta go John candy on this one

 

[Deezy]

It's a Wonderful Life is still more boring than white people church.

 

[Keith]

Wonderful Life, but I love PTA. This feels like a bit of an upset.