Christmas Classic

Rating: 10/10 (4 April 2006)

I have never seen better movie than this one. It has everything you could possibly want: James Stewart, an angel, (or rather, an actor playing an angel) and many other things. Since I first saw this movie, I can honestly say that I will never like any movie better than this one. How anyone can not like this movie is incomprehensible.
***Spoilers***
George Bailey, played excellently by James Stewart, is a successful banker. But one Christmas Eve, his uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell) loses the business money, $8,000. Desperate, George contemplates suicide, but before he can do it, he saves another man from drowning, who turns out to be his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence tries to convince George that suicide is not the right thing to do.
George then wishes what a lot of us wish at some point in life - that he'd never been born.
He then gets to see first-hand what the world would have been like had he not been born. It turns out that the town he lived in, Bedford Falls, would have been called "Pottersville", named after Mr. Potter, a rich and mean man, who actually was the one who found - and kept - the money that Uncle Billy had found.
George then wishes back his life, and it turns out to be better than he'd ever imagined.
This is a classic. No movie can top this movie on my list, no matter how hard anyone tries.
The best time of year to watch this movie is Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
10/10.