Capraesque

• “Before "Capraesque": Early Frank Capra (PFA, 6: 30)”

  East Bay Express

• “Before "Capraesque": Early Frank Capra (PFA, 8: 20)”

  East Bay Express

• “Here's where I get all Frank Capraesque... as in Frank Capra, the director who portrayed the power of the little people.”

  The Huffington Post: Marcia G. Yerman: Personal Responsibility and the Fight for Clean Air

• “A Capraesque feeling pervaded the gathering, with a line up of speakers delivering speeches with a can-do spirit -- sharing the Jimmy Stewart role.”

  The Huffington Post: Marcia G. Yerman: America at a Turning Point

• “Shrek Forever After is based on the Capraesque concept of Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) being bored and frustrated as a married ogre and, more pertinently, an ex-celebrity.”

  The Guardian: Shrek Forever After

• “Among the many points discussed are the failure of the mainstream media to adequately cover several controversial events during the Bush Administration; the role of film, documentary or narrative feature, in realizing the public's deeply desired dreams, which includes a search for heroes; and how these films may have prepared us to embrace and elect perhaps our most Capraesque political figure to date -- Barack Hussein Obama.”

  Penelope Andrew: How Recent Documentary Films May Have Paved the Way to Embrace the Figure of Barack Obama

• “An almost Capraesque feeling of optimism has replaced the bitter resignation resulting from eight confounding Bush years.”

  Steven Weber: The Aging of Enlightenment

• “Gervasi himself called it “a twisted, romantic comedy, very dark and funny,” which the trades refer to it as a romantic comedy and Capraesque.”

  Casting Notes: Farmiga and Caan go to Buffalo; New Gigs for Anne Heche and Jessica Biel | /Film

• “The trade, meanwhile, calls the film a “Capraesque romantic comedy” about “a bighearted man who is falsely accused of robbing a bank in Buffalo.””

  Keanu Reeves to Star In and Produce Henry’s Crime | /Film

• “It is, quite deliberately, a "Mr. Smith Goes to the Assassination," complete with a climactic courtroom peroration that is a 90-proof Capraesque barn raiser, down to the Jimmy Stewart catch in Costner's throat.”

  Newsweek: A Troublemaker For Our Times

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