It's a Wonderful Movie!

Rating: 10/10 (27 January 2005)

This rates up with my top 5 favorite movies of all time. I grew up on the Donna Reed show and remember that this was the movie I always saw her in and she was a lot more beautiful then. James Stewart is great as George Baily, the guy who wanted to help everybody and sacrificed his own financial success.
The idea that one doesn't realize one's worth until you are removed from the equation has been copied hundreds of times since but never as well as this movie.
Clarence is probably the most enjoyable bumbling character that I have ever seen. There is a cameo by an adult Alfalfa Sweitzer (for the Our Gang series) and the characters of Bert and Ernie later were immortalized by Sesame Street.
The ending of this movie is the "feel good" ending of all-time!