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"This town needs this measly, one-horse institution if only so people can have one place they don't have to go crawling to Potter."
-George Bailey
Yeah, "It's A Wonderful Life" is on NBC; I stumbled onto it about a third of the way through (the bit with the swimming pool floor opening up). I haven't seen this in years. (And Jimmy Stewart is still the oldest-looking 18-year-old I've seen on film. :-P )
It used to frustrate me to watch this when I was a kid - as much as I liked the story, it bothered me that George had to give up the life he wanted to stick around and keep the bank going, and I remember getting highly annoyed every time it got to the part with Uncle Billy and the $8,000, that drove George off his rocker.
Anyway, if you've never seen it, rent it sometime. There's a reason it's in the top one-fifth of American Film Institute's Top 100 Movies in 100 Years. It's got some cheese in it, but it's also the movie that started the particular kind of cheese it peddles, and has spawned hundreds of plotline imitators in TV dramas and sitcoms.
Yeah, "It's A Wonderful Life" is on NBC; I stumbled onto it about a third of the way through (the bit with the swimming pool floor opening up). I haven't seen this in years. (And Jimmy Stewart is still the oldest-looking 18-year-old I've seen on film. :-P )
It used to frustrate me to watch this when I was a kid - as much as I liked the story, it bothered me that George had to give up the life he wanted to stick around and keep the bank going, and I remember getting highly annoyed every time it got to the part with Uncle Billy and the $8,000, that drove George off his rocker.
Anyway, if you've never seen it, rent it sometime. There's a reason it's in the top one-fifth of American Film Institute's Top 100 Movies in 100 Years. It's got some cheese in it, but it's also the movie that started the particular kind of cheese it peddles, and has spawned hundreds of plotline imitators in TV dramas and sitcoms.
