What a scene

I have seen this movie literally 100's of times, the greatest movie ever.

That food looks good

"what could be a better death" 👏lol this is my favorite movie

I hope I have a relationship like this with my daughter or son. I’m going to have them with my wife for our selfish desires but I want to provide for them, teach them, guide them, and enable them to be prepared for their life. Then I want them to do what they feel. To see the world, to experience their life. I hope they do the right thing and makes decisions that are good for them. I hope I can see them be fulfilled, be happy and live their life.

I wish I had a father like George Bailey's kind and supportive and an all around good person and family man. It does fit the world we live in that he dies from a stroke presumably at least partly due to stress while people like Potter live on making people miserable.

What was the food they were eating in this scene

I'm forty years old and still I wonder what it was that they were eating 😂

Uncle Billy is really terrible, you know. Completely addle- brained and irresponsible.

“You were born old”. I feel the same way. When my father was stricken with terminal cancer, my teen years disappeared.

The family scenes goofing around the house, getting ready for the party is the best it feels like a documentary.

I had this exact same conversation with my father

in shock this morning did sumthin evil yto chris reeves

people of god do

It’s great because you do sympathize with George wanting to fly. But ultimately it’s the people we love and the friends we make that truly matters, wherever that is.

This is one of my favorite film scenes between a father and son -- MAYBE my favorite of all time. It breaks his father's heart to hear that George is leaving, but at the same time, he wants his son to be happy and have the adventures he never got to have. There's just so much respect and reverence between them, you don't see that anymore.

2:00 George’s words here are so memorable and relatable man. You feel like you just gotta get away from the boring life and see the world sometimes ya know?

James Stewart never did win a Best Actor Oscar did he - this scene alone, along with every other one in this film - deserved one for him.

You know, what isn't discussed is how Peter can't look at his son at 2:50 when he realizes that George wants to go see the world and do bigger things than sticking around Bedford Falls working at the Building & Loan. He looks almost worried, in a way. Peter knows George is good through-and-through and a brilliant man as well, but if George goes off then Potter has a good chance of beating the Bailey's family business; the single most important means of helping their community out through poverty and Potter's greedy tactics. That haunting look, he knows that he won't be around for much longer (And I'm not just saying that because that very night Peter has a stroke and passes away offscreen) and thinks that nobody will be around to help their friends and family and save them from turning to Potter. The sheer brilliance of acting in this scene... You really truly see how heartbroken Peter is that his son doesn't want to stay in Bedford Falls, yet he still supports George, loves him very much. I think a bit of Peter stuck around with George for the rest of the film, and it really makes you wonder what Peter was like as a father and as a friend to the community.

Best Christmas movie ever 👍

Does anyone knows what they're eating?😅

What are they eating in this scene? Anyone know?

Potter is corporate America and its greed personified

Why do you THINK they want gin???

“I heard it! It’s about time one of you lunkheads said it!” We all need an Annie in our lives.

This scene is beyond touching. Its a relation on various levels. Son and father caring for your fellow man. Etc.

In the alternative world, where Bailey Park was a cemetery . . . does George not understand that beautiful little houses are what make great communities? All this huff about modern cities and skyscrapers are just so cold and empty. I think there is more beauty in little houses than cities will ever know.

Crying how such innocent people long gone 😢😭

Look at the shadow on his face. They look like prison bars

This part speaks to all the Generations of how, bad things get you have to support your family.

Dad, I will always respect you for the action needed, you did. And, mother.. you maybe troubled. I gave you the perfect son. And left.

The brilliance of this writing... "He hates anyone with anything he can't have. I suppose he hates us most of all." Incredibly layered meaning in these words, what is it that the Baileys have in abundance that Potter doesn't? Family, friends, true treasure. Peter Bailey reveals to us very early on what the whole lesson of the film is from the very beginning.

George’s dad is smart

2:23 This is the part where investors and developers love to listen to... and burst out laughing, slapping each other on the back as they slam back vodkas.

Well, you were born older George....

No gin tonight - good luck saying that nowadays...

God puts us where we need to be

Any man who would give his life to save his brother is worth saving

"I wanna do something big, n' something important!" "You know George, I feel that in a small way we're doing something important. It's satisfying a fundamental urge. It's deep in the race for a man to want his own roof, and walls, and fireplace, and and we're helping him get those things in our shabby little office." George thought his mission was to create giant skyscrapers and design big cities. It turned out it was helping people escape rent and money monopoly, and build their own homes, families, and neighborhoods. In the movie, Potter and the Baileys represent two conflicting American dreams. Which one is winning?

Yes, how dare George actually have ambition !

1:33 Is that a cat crying? We watched this on Christmas through a new speaker system, and I had never heard that before. It was driving us crazy.

Love this film and this scene in particular. Solid performances by Jimmy Stewart, Samuel Hinds and Lillian Randolph. Gets me emotional every time.

“Sick in his mind, sick in his soul if he has one”. And those are the people who rule are world, those which this film tried to warn us about 76 years ago. The Potter’s run the show and a million Pottersville’s is their greatest triumph.

People eating g makes me sick

George's father is my hero

As an artist in my mid twenties, this scene hit me harder than ever this year. So many dreams, so many aspirations to do "big things" that this past year seemingly has put on hold - moving to a new city, breaking out in my career, dating the girl I care about, making a difference in the world...And yet I'm starting to learn more and more the truth that seems so obvious but can often be so elusive...what feels like disappointment in my present circumstances can actually yield a *better* life, with even richer rewards: good health, a job with security, a deeper connection and involvement with my church community, closeness with my family, and a stronger sense of grace and gratitude.

I never realised how relevant this film would become to me as an adult tbh

where went my comment?

“Sick man. Sick in his mind. Sick in his soul, if he has one. He hates everybody that has anything he can’t have” Sounds like someone we all know

He hated everybody that he cant have.. word