It's a Wonderful Life
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin. From TMDB
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60 of 157 · most liked first"It's A Wonderful Life" isn't just a feel-good holiday classic (and my favorite movie of all time). It's also a warning about what happens when greed runs the economy.
unlabelledView post →My favorite movie of all In the movie "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE " Jimmy Stewart's character George Bailey says "I wish I had a million dollars hee-haw" Well, if I had a million dollars I would buy each one of YOU one of these Tis the Season 🌲 ❤️🌲
unlabelledView post →It's A Wonderful Life is a Christmas movie.
unlabelledView post →It's a Wonderful Life premiered on Dec. 20, 1946. Steven Spielberg said of the film, "It’s a Wonderful Life shows that every human being on this Earth matters -- and that’s a very powerful message."
unlabelledView post →Are you watching the Oscars tonight? I wanted to share some thoughts about one of my favorite movies (and the important lesson I learned from it): It's A Wonderful Life. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQDjyZWw_A4
unlabelledView post →IT'S A WONDERFUL ESSAY: The last few days before Christmas is when people usually tend to rewatch 'It's a Wonderful Life.' Can I commend to you this really superb essay we published a few years ago? It could change the way you understand that movie. www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
unlabelledView post →The film IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE was released 78 years ago this week. The name 'It's A Wonderful Life' (Rose of the Year 2022) is used with the permission of Melange Pictures LLC all rights reserved. It's A Wonderful Life TM © Melange Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved. Have a nice day! #roseadvent 🌱
unlabelledView post →As is our Christmas tradition, we watched "It's a Wonderful Life" this weekend. After reading this piece, it had a completely different message. The power of women in our lives... www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
unlabelledView post →HOLIDAY FILM IDEA: It's a Wonderful Life, but with an angel showing Donald Trump how much better off everyone would be if he had never been born.
unlabelledView post →HOLIDAY FILM IDEA: It's a Wonderful Life, but with an angel showing Donald Trump how much better off everyone would be if he'd never been born.
unlabelledView post →We're showing the kids It's a Wonderful Life for the first time, and I got to pause the movie and explain that Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street were named after the characters from It's a Wonderful Life
unlabelledView post →We're doing an Advent calendar of iconic Christmas movie dresses and we're kicking things off with Donna Reed's dutiful wife frock in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and how it highlighted the film's themes, time and place: tomandlorenzo.com/2025/12/chri...
unlabelledView post →It's a Wonderful Life is a Christmas movie. Fight me.
unlabelledView post →Of course the mensch-iest of film critics is going to be essential reading on the mensch-iest of directors. Don't miss the ending, in which Matt imagines, It's a Wonderful Life-style, how impoverished the last few decades in Hollywood would have been without the influence & the generosity of Reiner.
unlabelledView post →This is at heart the same plot driving every Christmas film from It's a Wonderful Life (Jimmy Stewart is so wrapped up in his work he's about to kill himself because it betrayed him) to Jingle All the Way (where Arnold's journey simultaneously satirizes and celebrate Christmas's capitalist bent)
unlabelledView post →Tis the Season 🌲 In a world of tRump, Musk and rotten Broligarchs... They are all MR POTTER BE A GEORGE BAILEY 🎄 (movie It's a Wonderful Life)
unlabelledView post →I co-wrote a book of essays about the movie It's A Wonderful Life with @emilystjams.bsky.social! It's out in September. Pre-order it here! www.harpercollins.com/products/eve...
unlabelledView post →This is a thing I'm writing about in the It's a Wonderful Life book. This era in American film is interesting because so much of it is influenced the attempt to suppress the intense trauma of World War II, due to societal expectations. Maybe worth considering how many presidents were born into that.
unlabelledView post →It's a Wonderful Life is certainly a very humanist, compassionate movie but anyway saying it's somehow 'socialist' has literally reduced 'socialism' to 'rich people bad' which is a case of 'yes but there's more going on here kate'
unlabelledView post →Stephan's Quintet – a visual grouping of five galaxies of which four form the first compact galaxy group ever discovered. You may recognize these galaxies from the film, "It's A Wonderful Life", where they were used to symbolize angels.
unlabelledView post →It's A Wonderful Life is an extremely dark film.
unlabelledView post →Watched It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and shout out to Lillian Randolph for the funniest line of the entire film. This diva.
unlabelledView post →Here's my yearly reminder: All of "Die Hard" takes place at Christmas. Entire thing. 100%. Only 1/5th of "It's a Wonderful Life" takes place at Christmas. If "Die Hard" is not a Christmas movie, "It's a Wonderful Life" is DEFINITELY not a Christmas movie. (which, for the record, I think it is)
unlabelledView post →Hey folks, did you know "It's a Wonderful Life" was a film designed to spread Communist propaganda? The writers wanted to "discredit bankers" by making the banker a "scrooge-type" and the "most hated man in the picture." Only Commies do this shit!* 🗃️📽️ (*said the FBI in the Cominfil investigations!)
unlabelledView post →IT'S A WONDERFUL ESSAY: It seems people usually rewatch 'It's a Wonderful Life' just before Christmas. Can I commend to you this marvelous essay we published a few years ago? It could change the way you understand that classic movie. www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
unlabelledView post →One of my all-time best movie experiences was watching IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE with my kids a few years ago, and feeling their awe at just how captivating, rich and incredibly moving it is.
unlabelledView post →Wrote another book about one of my favorite movies with @laurentheisen.bsky.social, and it's OUT at the END of SEPTEMBER. Including thoughts on: -It's a Wonderful Life as Frank Capra's apotheosis -WWII PTSD -IAWL's politics -Bert & Ernie: gay??? Preorder here: www.harpercollins.com/products/eve...
unlabelledView post →Watching "It's A Wonderful Life" and the movie is a living testament to the value of unsubtlety in cinema.
unlabelledView post →My favourite in the "false attribution" genre remains "Franz Kafka's 'It's a Wonderful Life' ". Peter Capaldi apparently had a slip of the tongue and then decided he had to make the film.
unlabelledView post →Broke: Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Woke: It's a Wonderful Life isn't a Christmas movie. Bespoke: Picnic at Hanging Rock is a Valentine's Day movie.
unlabelledView post →For an actual answer to the initial prompt..... It's a Wonderful Life is perhaps the greatest American film ever made, brimming with beautiful messages about the need to accept others and build community. And it was made by an arch-conservative paranoiac driven by recrimination and hatred!
unlabelledView post →Movie too few people have seen? Tokyo Godfathers. Classic that isn't watched as much anymore? The Lion in Winter. Newest movie that deserves more eyeballs? The Apology. Movie everybody's seen but people are too negative about? It's A Wonderful Life.
unlabelledView post →It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite movie about an angel that bites cops.
unlabelledView post →I find it funny how people fight over whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas film, when It's a Wonderful Life has almost nothing to do with it until the last 35 minutes & it's considered the quintessential Christmas film Die Hard literally takes place on Christmas & has so many references to it
unlabelledView post →This is just the It's a Wonderful Life movie poster.
unlabelledView post →i have seen 2 separate people recently refer to the muppet christmas movie as "underrated". everyone every year constantly talks about how they love this film lol. yeah, here's another underground holiday hit: It's a Wonderful Life
unlabelledView post →Now, while I'm not in the "Die Hard is a Xmas movie" camp, that technically means that It's a Wonderful Life isn't a Christmas movie?
unlabelledView post →It's A Wonderful Life description on Sky. New: a group of popstars in a grim desert film add song-and-dance numbers to spice up the sand-and-sandals drama.
unlabelledView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) By Laurent Durieux
unlabelledView post →Thursday movie: It's a Wonderful Life (1946) *****
unlabelledView post →No darker movie ever made than It's A Wonderful Life
unlabelledView post →i'm watching It's A Wonderful Life for the first time and sad about how morally relevant this film still is. and crying at how Hollywood gives happy endings because real life doesn't
unlabelledView post →New essay! Don't come for me with "It's a Wonderful Life" hate. I will defend this movie forever.
unlabelledView post →Time Out London says Die Hard is the second greatest Xmas film of all time. The first is It's a Wonderful Life. The third is Elf. Obviously, I approve.
unlabelledView post →It's almost Eyes Wide Shut holiday screening days. The way it replaced It's A Wonderful Life as the go-to family christmas film is a triumph of not just cinema, but cinéastes themselves.
unlabelledView post →It's A Wonderful Life celebrating its 80th anniversary this year which means that when I was a toddler it was a 30-year old movie. My brain just can't fully process this.
unlabelledView post →Los Angeles!! Screen Drafts fans!! Join @laurentheisen.bsky.social and me at Village Well in Culver City on October 2 to talk Every Time a Bell Rings, our new book on It's a Wonderful Life! We'll be joined by the GREAT Darren Franich! www.eventbrite.com/e/film-book-...
unlabelledView post →"You know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000??" Perhaps the saddest, most evergreen quote in movie history. #ItsAWonderfulLife #Christmas
unlabelledView post →Tired: DIE HARD is a Christmas movie Wired: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is a movie about economics.
unlabelledView post →Add a word, ruin a movie It's A Wonderful Life Coach
unlabelledView post →It's A Wonderful Life is a Die Hard movie
unlabelledView post →It's a Wonderful Life: the movie where an angel bites a cop.
unlabelledView post →EVERYONE!! 🤠 Remember, George: No man is a failure who has friends. ~ Clarence (Henry Travers) in “It’s a Wonderful Life” #Quote #FilmSky #ItsAWonderfulLife #Friends
unlabelledView post →For my own part, It's A Wonderful Life remains my favorite black and white movie. And the reason for it is that it made a big change in my life.
unlabelledView post →we did it! after half a year my community has finished our movie club list of 50 "must watch" movies! I feel so cultured and educated haha Stand out greats were The Thing, Harakiri, and It's a Wonderful Life. Surprised by Brokeback Mountain and The Notebook! Really loved both. I love movies!!!
unlabelledView post →Ha, right? The movie, I'm realizing, is like a bizarre mashup of Hellraiser and It's a Wonderful Life. The movie entreats us to the same kind of visual language as alternate universe Pottersville, all decrepit and run down. bsky.app/profile/ed-n...
unlabelledView post →A really great James Stewart movie that is not 'It's A Wonderful Life':
unlabelledView post →"It's a Wonderful Life is a film noir." Okay, I'm out.
unlabelledView post →Add one word to a film to ruin it. It's A Wonderful Life Insurance
unlabelledView post →It's A Wonderful Life is my favorite christmas movie
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