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Although the film begins and ends on Christmas Eve, it is not a strict "Christmas movie." Most of the film is actually a straight dramatic story of the life of George Bailey, who keeps trying to get out of his small town of Bedford Falls, but keeps getting pulled back in for various reasons, most of them having to do with Henry F. Potter, the richest man in town. The film chronicles George's life from childhood, graduating from Bedford Falls High School, and his many battles with Potter, as he tries to take over George's family-owned bank, the Bailey Building and Loan.

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  • Although the film begins and ends on Christmas Eve, it is not a strict "Christmas movie." Most of the film is actually a straight dramatic story of the life of George Bailey, who keeps trying to get out of his small town of Bedford Falls, but keeps getting pulled back in for various reasons, most of them having to do with Henry F. Potter, the richest man in town. The film chronicles George's life from childhood, graduating from Bedford Falls High School, and his many battles with Potter, as he tries to take over George's family-owned bank, the Bailey Building and Loan.
  • It's a Wonderful Life (1946) is a classic Christmas film by Frank Capra and an annual tradition to be shown on television in the United States during the Christmas holidays.
  • It's a Wonderful Life is the favourite movie of both Dave Lister and Kristine Kochanski. They watched it together huddled in each other's arms while dating. When lister entered the total immersion video game Better Than Life he created a fantasy based on it (Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers and Better Than Life).
  • Eric sees what his life would have been like if he and Donna never dated. Turns out that Hyde was waiting for Donna after the Todd Rundgren concert. Eric makes a journey to the past and the future and finds that their relationship changed a lot of things.
  • It's a Wonderful Life was a classic Earth film from the year 1946. This Frank Capra film starred James Stewart. This film was a favorite of John Harriman and Amina Sasine. (TLE novel: Serpents Among the Ruins)
  • It's a Wonderful Life is a movie. On Christmas, Bitzi Baxter had planned for her and her son Buster to watch this for the fifth time. Buster, however, convinced her that the should just relax on Christmas and celebrate Baxter Day.
  • The story begins on Christmas Eve, 1946, and George Bailey is in a dark place. The prayers of his family and friends alert Heaven to George’s state of mind, and Clarence Odbody, an Angel Second Class, is sent to Earth to save George — and thereby perhaps, after 200 years of trying, to earn his wings. To prepare for his mission, Clarence is brought before Joseph, the head angel, to see a review of George's life to date, highlighting all the good he has done for others: As a boy, George saved the life of his younger brother Harry in an ice sledding accident, a heroic act that cost him the hearing in his left ear. Weeks later, George prevented his boss, local druggist Mr. Gower (H.B. Warner), from poisoning a child accidentally while grief-stricken from his son's death.
  • Faced with financial and personal ruin, George Bailey has so many problems that he is thinking about ending it all and on Christmas. As the angels discuss George, the film shows his life in flashbacks. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all his good deeds over the years. When George Bailey decides he wants to live, Lois Griffin, in her rampage through Quahog, pushes him off a bridge in "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas".
  • It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 Christmas film, directed by Frank Capra and starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, Henry Travers, and Lionel Barrymore. The film focuses on George Bailey (Stewart), a good man driven to frustration and on the verge of suicide, until his guardian angel Clarence shows him what the world would be like had he never been born. The movie received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor and Best Picture, but lost in each category. However, It's a Wonderful Life has since come to be regarded as a cinematic classic, particularly through annual television airings.
  • It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 Frank Capra film, produced by his own studio Liberty Films and released originally by RKO Radio Pictures and currently by Paramount Pictures. Dubbed by the American Film Institute one of the best films ever made, it placed #1 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers, a list of the most inspirational American movies of all time. It ranks 11th on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, a list of the greatest American films.
  • The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his dreams in order to help others and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and how different life in his community of Bedford Falls would be had he never been born. __TOC__
  • Hao Huixian is a selfish, penny-pinching miser. He is always pretending to be poor so that his neighbours will not borrow money from him. Huixian and his ex-wife have a son, Hao Fuqi, a singing star. Huixian later married Amy who also has a son, Gu Zhiji, from her first marriage. Although Zhiji and Amy had been living in Huixian’s home since he was 12, the boy has never accepted his stepfather. Zhiji finally moved out to live on his own when he was in Pre-U 1.
  • Another movie that is destroying America, It's A Wonderful Life underminds the very roots of democracy by being anticapitalist. This film was directed by Frank Capra, who is not an American which makes him an infidel and therefor any enemy combatant subject to the brute, righteous and just fury of Americas armed forces. Which have the blessing of our holy and fearless leader George W. Bush (God save the King). We cannot allow ourselves to become tainted by this Italian, fascist propaganda.
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