JIMMY

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JIMMY

PG-13

In Theaters Nov 6

2h 0m

Drama

Biography

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JIMMY, the untold true story of America's most-beloved actor and the iconic role that saved him, focuses on the most transformative season in Jimmy Stewart's life--from winning the Academy Award® for Best Actor in The Philadelphia Story to enlisting and becoming a combat pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps at the beginning of World War II. He flew twenty missions over Europe, rising to the rank of colonel by the end of the war, only to return home broken and disheartened. Then George Bailey and It's a Wonderful Life came calling....

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Aaron Burns

Director

K.J. Apa

James Stewart

Max Casella

Frank Capra

Kara Killmer

Lady Julia

Neal McDonough

Alexander Stewart

Julian Works

Second Lieutenant Martinez

Monica Castillo

AV Club

16 hrs ago

D

In trying to do too much, Jimmy loses sight of the person at the center of its story.

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Joey Magidson

Awards Radar

6 hrs ago

2.5/4

Jimmy is a reverential yet uneven and surface level look at a Hollywood icon.

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Dionar Hidalgo

Algo Más Que Cine

9 hrs ago

6/10

KJ Apa delivers a sensitive performance as James Stewart in a story about the invisible wounds of war and the search for hope. Its connection to It's a Wonderful Life brings some of its most moving moments, even if the film feels uneven in its execution.

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Charles Koplinski

Reel Talk with Chuck and Pam

19 hrs ago

2.5/4.0

Aaron Burns’ well-intended "Jimmy" takes a reverential look at the actor’s days in the military and, despite its shortcomings, succeeds in its effort to cast him in a heroic light.

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Tania Hussain

Collider

20 hrs ago

6/10

The movie understands the compassion and decency that made Jimmy Stewart so beloved, and its depiction of wartime sacrifice carries genuine emotional weight.

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Alex Harrison

Screen Rant

23 hrs ago

4/10

If you ask me, the parts that work are not remotely worth sitting through the sections that are both lazy and sickly sweet.

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Synopsis

JIMMY, the untold true story of America's most-beloved actor and the iconic role that saved him, focuses on the most transformative season in Jimmy Stewart's life--from winning the Academy Award® for Best Actor in The Philadelphia Story to enlisting and becoming a combat pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps at the beginning of World War II. He flew twenty missions over Europe, rising to the rank of colonel by the end of the war, only to return home broken and disheartened. Then George Bailey and It's a Wonderful Life came calling....

Director: Aaron Burns
Producer: Aaron Burns, Angela Galgani Sullivan, John Norton, Jack McClintock, David C. Cook, Justin Strawhand
Screenwriter: Sam Juergens, Justin Strawhand
Distributor: Fathom Entertainment
Production Co: Burns & Co., RedTed Media
Rating: PG-13 (Thematic Elements|Bloody Images|Some War Violence|Smoking)
Genre: Drama, Biography
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 6, 2026, Wide
Runtime: 2h 0m

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