One of the most popular and enduring films ever made, It’s a Wonderful Life is a gloriously sentimental testament to homely small-town moral values.
Masterfully crafted, the film opens with angels discussing George Bailey, a man so beset with problems that he contemplates suicide. As George prepares to jump from a bridge, his guardian angel Clarence Oddbody intervenes and shows him how badly Bedford Falls would have turned out without his good deeds.
Filled with a renewed joy in life, George returns to his family for Christmas.