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06/24/06
Meet John Doe (1941)
92 %
Reviews Counted: 13 Fresh: 12 Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 50 mins
Synopsis: A spunky journalist, fired by the paper's new owners, hatches a clever scheme to get her job back. On her last day of work, she "discovers" a letter written by a man lamenting the selfishness and injustice of the world--and announcing his plans to kill himself on Christmas Eve as a... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan, James Gleason, Edward Arnold
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05/24/03
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One of Capra's most politically problematic parables, from his contradictory approach to the "little people" to the right-wing elements to the compromised ending, in which Cooper is stopped from committing suicide; we think he should have.
07/02/07
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03/25/06
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Frank Capra's most ambitious and disturbing film, Meet John Doe is possibly more relevant today than when it first appeared in 1941.
11/05/02
This vintage Capra film is the sort of sentimental thing that only he could get away with.
10/14/02
Meet John Doe (1941) is a wonderful, but dark Frank Capra populist melodramatic tale about the common man. The sentimental film is often grouped
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