It Was a Wonderful Life

Not to be confused with It's a Wonderful Life.

It Was a Wonderful Life
Directed by	Michèle Ohayon
Produced by	Michèle Ohayon Tamar E. Glaser
Starring	Lou Hall Reena Sands Majorie Bard Jeanette Goldberg Terry Dotson Steve Renehan Gordon Tuthill Wayne Doss Dennis Cohen Linda Hernandez
Narrated by	Jodie Foster
Cinematography	Theo van de Sande Bruce Ready Jacek Laskus
Edited by	Mark C. Baldwin Lisa Leeman Anne Stein
Music by	Melissa Etheridge
Distributed by	CineWomen
Release date	1993 (1993)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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.

The film was produced by Michèle Ohayon and Tamar E. Glaser, a descendant of "The Glaser-Kochavi family", a prominent business family located in Israel and the United States.

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

External links

• It Was a Wonderful Life at IMDb