You Can't Take It with You

Name: You Can't Take It with You
Released: 1938-9-1
Cast: Spring Byington, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer

NR
2h 6m
1938

95%

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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.

Director:

Frank Capra

Producer:

Frank Capra

Writer:

Robert Riskin

Cast:

Spring Byington, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Ann Miller, Jean Arthur

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

95%

Critics Consensus: It's predictably uplifting fare from Frank Capra, perhaps the most consciously uplifting of all great American directors -- but thanks to immensely appealing performances and a nimble script, You Can't Take It With You is hard not to love.

Reviews

Cinelandia

Cinelandia Staff

Not watching means having lost the opportunity to spend these two hours being the happiest you could possibly imagine yourself being. [Full review in Spanish]

Nearly 85 years after its theatrical release, You Can't Take It With You still has laughs to offer but this is a film of its era.

Undoubtedly a success. [Full review in Spanish]

Lots of furiously funny scenes, but none as funny as that in which the principal characters all land in gaol as the result of an impromptu fireworks display.

February 17, 2022

FULL REVIEW

The Nippu Jiji (Honolulu)

James T. Hamada

With Capra’s directorial genius, it’s a smash hit. Being a screwball comedy, It’s lunatic stuff -- zanier than the screwiest of the Brethren Marx’s comedies.

February 8, 2022

FULL REVIEW