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Summary: A holiday treat!
Review: How can a man go from be happy to misable? But it can happen. George Bailey starts life as happy boy turning itno man, and was around to save to save his 8 years old brother from drowing but then causing him to lose hearing in one ear. As a 12 year old he works in a drug store for kind of a gumpy man (H.B. Warner). The movie starts with some people in a town called Bedfordfalls praying to god to help George Bailey (James Stewart). Which leads us to see a couple of talking things that are supposed to be god and angles (and angles in training). Then we got a flashback of George's life as a 12 years old boy in 1919. When he saves his brother Harry. Then we see him becoming a man who knows what he wants to do tommrrow, the next day and the next year, he wants to leave the little town and see the world. Which he learn from when he tells that his girlfriend Mary Hatch (Donna Reed). After he breaks a window at this big house.
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Summary: Wonderful Life Lesson
Review: Even though some years it is overly shown on TV I still love this movie and never tire of it. I think what makes it one of my favorites is that it tells much more than a Christmas story. It tells us that no matter what we do, we matter. We touch so many peoples lifes during our lifetime that like a butterfly flitting across a blue sky in Illinois may lead to the wind a Sailing ship needs in the Sea of Japan. Well a little overstated maybe but we do in fact cause ripples in the fabric of our civilization. We all may never impact so many as George Bailey does, but we certainly can make a difference even if it is just one we touch. Anyone no matter what age should enjoy this movie.
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Summary: GREATEST HOLIDAY FILM EVER MADE!
Review: Why not? It is ranked #11 on the American Film Institue's 100 Best Movies of All Time list. This is Frank Capra's prime and best direction. It should have won all the Academy Awards it
was nominated for. George Bailey (James Stewart) is just a ordinary small town man who when he was a child he had dreams of being famous and building things and travel around the world. Through life's events he never sets foot outside of Bedford Falls. On Christmas Eve, c. 1945, he becomes depressed that he fears he has misplaced $8000 to pay off a defecit. The meanest man in town, Henry F. Potter who tried to ruin George all his life, won't help him at all. George came crawling to the wrong person. George makes an attempt at suicide, but is saved thanks to his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody A-S-2 (angel second class). He shows George who wishes he had never been born at all, what life and the town would be without him. Things are different in multiple ways. It drives George crazy, until he can't take it any longer and asks for his life back. It almost brings a tear to your eye when George is sobbing on the bridge and says "Please, God, let me live again." Bert the cop finds him and George he realizes Bert knows him, his mouth is bleeding and finds everything the way it was before, and realizes how happy he was and how many lives he touched and just about everything wouldn't be the same without him. He really did have a wonderful life! His wife and childhood friend, Mary (Donna Reed) arranges all of George's friends, quite a whole lot, to help George out. Indeed, it is true that no man is a failure who has friends. When you see this astounding, inspiring and highly admired film, you'll realize that everyone in this world has a purpose in life and matters to everyone whether they realize it or not. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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Summary: Fascinating Film
Review: It's a Wonderful Life is a very special film. Meticulously and perfectly structured, it tells of a seemingly simple story of a small-town banker - his life and tribulations. Part of the time, it is comedy and romance, and it turns dark and melodramatic in the middle. The storytelling is never straightforward - it starts out with narrations from the third party with flashbacks before getting to the present. When the angel intervenes, the story takes a turn to the surreal. James Stewart is perfect in the role of George Bailey, with a wide range of emotions. Watch him closely in the scenes at the bridge and after running out of his mother's boarding house. The entire cast, the script, and the direction that weaves through many layers of details are flawless. The cynics might slight the feel-good, homely happy ending, but overall, this film should rank among the best in its era just for its artistic merits.
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Summary: the OTHER, "Its A Wonderful Life"
Review: TWO wonderfully great holiday feel-good movies were produced in 1947, yet one remains virtually unseen. If you ever get the chance to see, "IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE," make sure you do not miss it. This movie could easily become as popular as, "It's A Wonderful Life." The movie was directed by Roy Del Ruth and stars Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore, Gale Storm, Alan Hale Jr. and ...I don't know why it has never been put on DVD or VHS, but is surely deserves to be and if I knew how to pressure someone to get the job done, I surely would. If you get a chance, you MUST see it and if you do see it you WILL want to see it every year thereafter or own it on DVD...GUARANTEED!
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Summary: Truly Wonderful - Inspired, Simple, Fun, - not JUST for Chri
Review: The movie It's A Wonderful Life is one of a very few classics fills which can fill a theater even when it is shown over fifty years after it was released. Though usually thought of as a Christmas movie, it is far, far more. The messages which IAWL conveys -- that of hope, responsibility to others, personal responsibility, and traditional values -- makes IAWL not only a rich movie, but a indeed a cultural experience. I run the It's A Wonderful Life Webring [...]
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Summary: A Buddhist Christmas Card
Review: Any film that can make the callous break into tears is as close as we can come to an "objective" work of art. This is such a work as that; it affects people in the same basic way, moreover the way in which the creator(s) intended, and must be watched straight through from the beginning for this full effect to occur. Anyone can identify with George Bailey's yearning to be somebody important, to be recognized, to move to a better place (if not physically, then spiritually). This is the key. But at the heart of this magic film is a complex of philosophical ideas, which work by asking the viewer to imagine themselves as being in George's position. A simple yet seemingly unanswerable question: Would the world be a better place, or a worse place, had you not been born? The answer structurally turns on a tenet of chaos theory, namely, that small changes have enormous unforeseeable consequences over time. The actions of each living being eventually affects the entire universe. And this is true for every one of us.
The second idea is that you are not simply a part of the whole and thus alone, but that you are, in your entirety, your living relations with other people. This is what George never fully understood--even though he resentfully cast aside his ambitions in order to thwart Mister Potter and help his fellow townsfolk. George Bailey is shown not just a world in which he never existed, but is shown the NOTHINGNESS that an individual, subjective ego is (Witness the scene where Clarence the Angel announces "you've got your wish--you've never been born" and a howling wind blows open the door--signifying the void which George's non-existent body would have occupied?) Even the natural elements are out of whack by his absence.
They don't make 'em like this anymore.
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Summary: Hey, how about a thumbs-up!
Review: A classic like no other classic, a film so fun and alive, sentimental, and full of hope. Wonderful pace, wonderful story, and an almost endless list of great performances. See it again and again and again. . .
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Summary: Definitely in the Top 10 movies of all time
Review: How any one can give this movie less than, say, four stars I can't imagine. It is the world's greatest Christmas movie ever and definitely in the Top 10 movies of all time. James Stewart gives a perfect performance as George Bailey, the small-town man of Bedford Falls who always wished he could go out and do something great with his life. "I want to shake the dust of this crummy town off my feet, and I'm going to see the world!" he says. But then he meets Mary, and falls in love with her. Clarence the Angel is also a great character. He guides and helps George throughout most of the story. The story has a great message, too. It's a Christmas classic I watch every Christmas Eve, and it's not to be missed.
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Summary: It's a Wonderful Tale
Review: This is a classic in itself directed by Frank Capra starring James Stewart and Donna Reed. This film was once thought of as a flop, but it bounced back and beyond anyone's wildest imagination. James Stewart as George Bailey performs superbly in one of his most infamous roles. This movie is watched over and over by millions especially during the holiday season. It delivers a message of hope, romance, humor, failure and success. There aren't too many films out there that touch on so many emotions successfully. The movie reveals life's ups and downs, personal struggles and triumphs. This is a great movie, if you have never seen it, I recommend you watch it this winter.
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