It's a Wonderful Life issued in home media. In 1990, another made-for-television film called "Clarence" starred Robert Carradine in a new tale of the helpful angel. A purported sequel was in development for a 2015 release, and was to be called "It's a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story". It was to be written by Bob Farnsworth and Martha Bolton and follow the angel of George Bailey's daughter Zuzu (played once again by Karolyn Grimes), as she teaches Bailey's evil grandson how different the world would have been if he had never been born. Producers were considering directors and hoped to shoot the
It's a Wonderful Life "to combat a modern trend toward atheism". It ranked 283rd among critics, and 107th among directors, in the 2012 "Sight & Sound" polls of the greatest films ever made. The film's positive reception has continued into the present. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 94% based on 71 reviews, with an average rating of 8.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The holiday classic to define all holiday classics, "It's a Wonderful Life" is one of a handful of films worth an annual viewing." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film