Film · 1938 · Romantic comedy
You Can't Take it With You
Directed by Frank Capra
1938
★ 1.7 editorial score
A household where everyone does exactly as they like collides with a banking family: Frank Capra won his third directing Oscar in five years, and the argument is still the one America has.
“"You Can't Take It With You" is shamelessly sentimental. It's about blissful liberty overcoming corporate cynicism. It’s about everything working out in the end. It's about how love, romance, and inventiveness are definitely better than wealth, status, and ambition. Even the title is a lesson to the audience. And it’s all told with a relatively heavy hand. But since it was made by Frank Capra — who essentially invented film sentimentality — you forgive a lot of it.”
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