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'LIFE' IS BEAUTIFUL George Bailey (Stewart) embraces his reality
Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is a midlife-crisis fantasy in which angelic intervention allows George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) to appreciate the eternal verities of family and belonging, to see how lousy Bedford Falls would be if he'd never been born. In exploring all the things that could go wrong, Wonderful Life, thanks to Stewart's shockingly bitter performance, remains scary as hell.
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