McAndrew Board: Please join me at 8:00 pm tonight on NBC...It's a Wonderful Life...

Mr. Potter

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Maybe I'll share what I ended up doing with the money that Uncle Billy unknowingly gifted me.

Merry Christmas to all

PS: Christmas eve is the greatest day of the year, in my opinion. I wish time could slow on this day.

Shalom
 
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Maybe I'll share what I ended up doing with the money that Uncle Billy unknowingly gifted me.

Merry Christmas to all

PS: Christmas eve is the greatest day of the year, in my opinion. I wish time could slow on this day.

Shalom
I have a DVD of the movie and the back story of how and when it was made. There was a heat wave going on during the filming period when Uncle Billy lost the money to Potter. They bought in shaved ice for the snow. Merry Christmas everyone!
 

MtNittany

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It's hard to imagine a woman more beautiful than Donna Reed was.

 

PSUPetch

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Maybe I'll share what I ended up doing with the money that Uncle Billy unknowingly gifted me.

Merry Christmas to all

PS: Christmas eve is the greatest day of the year, in my opinion. I wish time could slow on this day.

Shalom
I must say that you were one of the truly magnificent villains in movie history...even though I heard that you were a very nice person off camera.
 

LionJim

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I am with you Rick. Jimmy Stewart’s charachter seems too whiny . Maybe Die Hard or Elf , maybe.

Aw, everyone needs to see it at least once. Classic Americana.

The character of Mr. Potter is such a mallet-over-the-head caricature of the mean banker, that ruins it for me.

Rick owes it to the board to watch it tonight and come back tomorrow with his opinion.

My father-in-law was a child of the Depression, a World War II vet. I once mentioned to my sister-in-law that he was the least sentimental man I'd ever met. “Dad watched It’s a Wonderful Live every year and cried every time. He would try to hide it but I’d always catch him.”

I’d like to say here that @Mr Potter represents the best of us. Much appreciated. Cheers and Merry Christmas.
 
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LionJim

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I guessed that It’s a Wonderful Life was 95% Tomatometer, actual is 94%. McAndrew meter would be 97%, conservatively.
 
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CBS Sunday morning had a special on Seneca Falls, NY, which they say is the Bedford Falls in ' It’s A Wonderland Life'. They have a museum there for the movie and the bridge looks similar.

Check out this video, "cbs sunday morning special on it's a wonderful life" https://share.google/q1fdfSfKuUFWzJlIg
 
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MtNittany

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I am with you Rick. Jimmy Stewart’s charachter seems too whiny . Maybe Die Hard or Elf , maybe.

His character wasn't really whiny, just unfulfilled (in his mind) and he wore it on his sleeve. Until he married Mary.

Not nearly the intelligence and complexity of a Will Ferrell film, but it's still a good movie that ends like Field of Dreams w/ a lot of people.
 
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Aw, everyone needs to see it at least once. Classic Americana.

The character of Mr. Potter is such a mallet-over-the-head caricature of the mean banker, that ruins it for me.

Rick owes it to the board to watch it tonight and come back tomorrow with his opinion.

My father-in-law was a child of the Depression, a World War II vet. I once mentioned to my sister-in-law that he was the least sentimental man I'd ever met. “Dad watched It’s a Wonderful Live every year and cried every time. He would try to hide it but I’d always catch him.”

I’d like to say here that @Mr Potter represents the best of us. Much appreciated. Cheers and Merry Christmas.
I will TiVo it and watch it after the CAL game
 
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razpsu

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We do it’s a wonderful life Christmas night. So have fun tonight
 

MtNittany

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Great movie.....I'll be at dinner and then church so I'll miss it this year. But enjoy it! That movie never gets old and is always good for a tear or two (not from me of course ;) ).

My favorite: "Remember, no man is a failure who has friends."
That's pretty much the message of the entire film summed up in perfect script on the inside of a perfectly written book.
 
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Connorpozlee

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CBS Sunday morning had a special on Seneca Falls, NY, which they say is the Bedford Falls in ' It’s A Wonderland Life'. They have a museum there for the movie and the bridge looks similar.

Check out this video, "cbs sunday morning special on it's a wonderful life" https://share.google/q1fdfSfKuUFWzJlIg
PBS also did a half hour program on it. Interesting.
 
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Connorpozlee

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Great movie.....I'll be at dinner and then church so I'll miss it this year. But enjoy it! That movie never gets old and is always good for a tear or two (not from me of course ;) ).

My favorite: "Remember, no man is a failure who has friends."
Every time I hear that line I always think of how crushing that must hit those that are lonely and at least feel like they don’t have friends.
 

BobPSU92

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My wife and I just watched It’s a Wonderful Life on Prime Video. Commercial-free and in black and white. One of our favorites.

Tomorrow, we will watch White Christmas.

🙂
 

LionJim

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My wife and I just watched It’s a Wonderful Life on Prime Video. Commercial-free and in black and white. One of our favorites.

Tomorrow, we will watch White Christmas.

🙂
Can confirm It’s a Wonderful Life is on Prime. 130 minutes.
 
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