My Favorite Christmas Movie is It's A Wonderful Life

One of our family's favorite holiday traditions is watching that Christmas classic, "It's A Wonderful Life" with Donna Reed and Jimmy Stewart.

In past years we've watched it in person as a family on Christmas Eve at the classic Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto, complete with popcorn and soda. In that venue, booing the villian (Potter) and cheering on the hero (George Bailey) is encouraged, much as it was in old melodramas.

For years, the tradition was to watch it on Christmas Eve. However, this year we watched it as a family at my house on Christmas Day. I was grateful to continue the tradition with my loved ones at all, even though it was different for 2020.

I can relate to the struggle of George Bailey-someone who wants to accomplish great things elsewhere, yet keeps on riding the roller coaster of the economic ups and downs of small family business. (There are many similar challenges between the Building & Loan and Real Estate business.)

Yet even when facing "bankruptcy, scandal and prison" through no fault of his own, George Bailey comes to realize this truth: "No man is a failure who has friends."

This year we lent our DVD of the movie it to several different groups of friends who'd never watched it before. If you haven't yet seen "It's A Wonderful Life", I highly recommend it.

For some trivia fun about "It's A Wonderful Life", here is a link to Mental Floss's article "25 Wonderful Facts About It's A Wonderful Life" at http://mentalfloss.com/article/60792/25-wonderful-facts-about-its-wonderful-life.

This is one of three entries for the Holiday Cheer 2020 contest.

This post is for the Holiday Fun and Cheer December Challenge! (activerain.com) and thank you Anna Banana Anna Banana Kruchten CRS CRB, Phoenix Broker, Phoenix Real Estate Agent - ActiveRain and Carol Williams Carol Williams, Wenatchee Education & Training - ActiveRain!

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