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Summary: It's a wonderful movie
Review: I've never felt so warm watching a movie as when I saw this classic for the first time. When the young Mary whispers into George's deaf ear, I'm hooked. What amazes me is that this movie seemed to gather mothballs for 30 years before becoming a phenomenon in the 1970s. I don't remember it being shown even during Christmas in the 1960s, and I had never even heard of it until Jimmy Stewart was on the Tonight Show, and Johnny Carson remarked what a great film it was. I saw it at a midnight movie in college a short time later, and I couldn't believe how perfect it was. A year or two later, it was on PBS a billion times each holiday, and it seemed like everyone fell in love with it then. I can't blame 'em.
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Summary: Best Christmas film ever
Review: Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. He is the best actor in history and in this film, this one being his first one after WW2, he delivers in his usual style. He plays everyday schmuck George Bailey, a modern day Bob Cratchit with an urge to get out on his own. Unfortunately, he is forced to watch his dreams get smashed repeatedly by business and family obligations. It is on Christmas Eve that his last shred of hope is diminished and he is forced to take the only way out; suicide. Enter Clarence, George's guardian angel who hasn't earned any wings. He gives proof to my theory (convieniently called the Frank Capra/Jimmy Stewart theory) that everyone has an effect on everyone else. He shows George that he should stop feeling sorry for himself by creating an alternate reality; one that shows what Georges hometown of Bedford Falls would have been like without George. It is here that Capra shows a darker, spookier side as he takes us into what is now called Pottersville, named after the rich villain of the story Henry F. Potter. It has been transformed from an innocent Mom and Pop town to a Las Vegas-ish pit. The most powerful scene is that where George meets up with Mary, a woman who (in the real world) was his wife. Here, we see that she has turned into a lonely old maid. Frank Capra was the Spielberg of his time, and the way that he tells the story of one man who doesn't know his own goodness, is truly amazing.
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Summary: One of the few movies which changed my life view a little
Review: Donna Reed and James Stewart - a classic, in my view: one of the few movies which changed my view of life a little and for the better.
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Summary: What can you say.......
Review: This is my all time favorite movies, and cry everytime I watch it!! :);)It shows how a young man going to commit suicide, is shown by an angel what life was like and would be like with out him around! It is a beautiful classic, and everyone will be humbled by it!!
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Summary: SIMPLY THE BEST
Review: If you wan't to put meaning back into your life - watch this movie. It will make you laugh, cry but most of all you will never feel the same again. James Stewart at his very best and Frank Capra at his most magnificent!
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Summary: Anybody Got a Hankerchief?
Review: This is my favourite Christmas movie of all time. This movie also shows that if you help others & truly care about them, you will be rewarded. Who was the idiot who made a colour version of this? That was a mortal sin!
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Summary: The last scene is one of the best in movies
Review: For the entire movie, you think George Bailey's a nice guy. (Jimmy Stewart was really great in the role.) You feel sorry for him as he contemplates suicide, you hope seeing what the world would be like if he'd never lived will make him see that, as his angel says, $Q really had a wonderful life." But in the last scene, in which he begs the invisible angel to let him live again, you are suddenly pulled into the movie for the first time, and with force! You beg the angel to let him live, too. When he "becomes alive" again, and he runs through the town, that is one of the most joyous sequences I've ever seen in movies. I hardly ever cry watching movies, but I cried with joy watching that. This is a true example of just how wonderful life is, and the final scene will help anyone who is sad or going through depression see that very well. A truly great film.
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Summary: A touching film for the whole family.
Review: I don't wait until Christmas anymore to savor this gem
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Summary: Perfection?
Review: This is one of my all-time favourite movies. James Stewart has to be actor of the century, nay the millennium. This film among others show how brilliant an actor he was. Forget the insincere stagy performances of Tom Hanks, sit down and watch an actor who makes you believe in the characters he played. Every moment, every performance in this film is a positive gem. No other film has moved me the way this film continues to move me. It has humour and pathos, all carefully and expertly mixed. Perhaps the closest thing to a perfect film? On the down side this DVD transfer is not perfect, there is noticeable pixelation in some scenes, especially where there are shadows - there is a noticeable shimmering in the background. Other than that its a fine print of a wonderful film.
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Summary: Best movie ever.
Review: Everybody should watch this film. It will make you feel good everytime you see it.
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