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It Was a Wonderful Life

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It Was a Wonderful Life
Directed byMichèle Ohayon
Produced byMichèle Ohayon
Tamar E. Glaser
StarringLou Hall
Reena Sands
Majorie Bard
Jeanette Goldberg
Terry Dotson
Steve Renehan
Gordon Tuthill
Wayne Doss
Dennis Cohen
Linda Hernandez
Narrated byJodie Foster
CinematographyMark C. Baldwin
Lisa Leeman
Anne Stein
Edited byMark C. Baldwin
Nathan Friedkin
Susanne Gervay
Michel Jones
Charlotte Lagarde
Walter Rose
Erika Schleich
Donna Wheeler
Music byMelissa Etheridge
Distributed byCineWomen
Release date
1993 (1993)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

It Was a Wonderful Life is a 1993 documentary film about homeless women in the United States. It won the Gold Award at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. It was also nominated for an award by the International Documentary Association and for Best Documentary at the Hawaii International Film Festival.

The film follows six homeless women who were once part of the middle class and explores what caused them to become homeless. It was narrated by Jodie Foster.

Lou Hall, one of the homeless women in the film, took her own life on November 7, 1992.