The Heartwarming Christmas Finale of "It's a Wonderful Life" with First-Time Reactions

[@camickelson]

I know I'm crying with you all in Joy watching this and Thanking Our LORD JESUS.

[@mwhyte1979]

Think about the fact that this movie is almost 80 years old and still has the ability to bring tears of joy.

[@ccefc_families297]

I've seen this movie 100's of times and the ending still gets me in tears. Now seeing these hosts react with tears and big smiles has triggered me to tears yet again.

[@BiffTeka]

The most powerful evokers of emotion, Shakespeare's plays, are over 500 years old. What's the point?

[@MatthiaGryffine]

We need more movies like this right now

[@gawainethefirst]

“Isn’t it amazing, George? We each touch each other’s lives so completely, that when one of us is gone it leaves an awful hole.”

[@snapmalloy5556]

I'm a hardened old, 64 year old guy that chokes up every time I see this wonderful film

[@RichardM1366]

My mom loved this movie. She cried Everytime the bell rang. She suffered from Multiple Myeloma. I lost her in 2011. As we passed The Church the bell rang. Mom got her wings.

[@Mamadukes1953]

Amen

[@camickelson]

❤🙏 Praying with you my friend.. My Mom passed away too

[@JenBriSeth]

I love watching people discover this movie.

[@custardflan]

There's a bike store in our town called Zuzus Pedals.

[@camickelson]

Really??wow!! That's wonderful!❤️

[@erey214]

Liar

[@Montcoshire]

The first “Go Fund Me”😢👏🏽

[@glenndespres5317]

When I see a movie that has always touched me, touch others, I see clearly that WE are ALL ONE. What touches one, touches all.😊 Now we all feel like the Grinch, whose heart grew 3 sizes that day! Merry Christmas to all!

[@cliffordwaterton3543]

Not a dry eye in the house - this is what it's all about - Merry Christmas you wonderful reactors!

[@hadrenspicer9035]

Jimmy Stewart never made a bad movie. This was his best .my favorite movie

[@aarondyer.pianist]

Good mashup. The Popcorn in Bed girl is my favorite.

[@THOMMGB]

This is a good one. Never has 19 minutes and 42 seconds gone by so quickly. Really well worth saving and rewatching many times.

[@davidhutchinson5233]

So nice seeing these reaction. I wish America was more like this today. But this movie always hits you right square in the heart, every single time. I saw it as a kid with my Grand Mother and Great Aunt. They both saw it when it came out in the movies in the mid 40s.

[@LordEagle]

To my big brother George,,,,the richest man in town. 💥💥💥👍😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@ccefc_families297]

Take that, Potter!

[@philipparker357]

You know what they say, "You may not get the life you want, but you can get the life you deserve".

[@hmsljj]

Great job capturing all those reactions to this wonderful movie, it's very much appreciated.

[@kdittyb]

Idc how old this movie is, every guy dreams of finding a Mary Hatch!!!!

[@seregrian5675]

THANK YOU so much for a wonderful compilation for this classic motion picture!

[@lightningbug276]

What a beautiful thing love is!

[@kdlflyballer8977]

You are all loved and the love you give will touch so many other lives so share your love even with strangers and those who want to harm you and you will receive love. Merry Christmas everyone. May you all have A Wonderful Life

[@patricke2088]

The movie was a flop when it came out. So much so that the studio failed to renew the copyright on it. This meant tv stations could broadcast it for free every Christmas. And a legend was born.

[@manricobianchini5276]

Love like that is so rare nowadays, unfortunately. I wish this kind of love was more prevalent. Love this movie and what is shows. And small towns are amazing, with amazing people. Jimmy Stewart just cane back from serving in WW2!

[@MsCatmando]

Look at how much this movie has done to our lives.Not to mention the movie itself.

[@igorguideoli]

The best Christmas movie. I love!

[@Lilmovieman27]

The reason this movie is the best Christmas movie? It shows what everyone wants for Christmas: appreciation

[@mikeeckel2807]

(12/15/24) I've I've watched "It's a Wonderful Life" eight and a half times this Holiday Season so far. Ive gotten teary-eyed each time.

[@tommythompson9565]

Thank you for this well-done mash-up, MUR . It couldn't have been done any better. Now I hafta leave ... gonna go watch It's A Wonderful Life . 😊

[@alexd0617]

A life lesson. When you are there for others, others will be there for you.

[@michaelfontanelli2450]

Every member of the cast crushed it, but especially James Stewart and Henry Travers as Clarence! 😊❤️

[@psychopyrodude]

I made my mom spit her drink across the room. She did the every time a bell rings line and I followed it with "And every time a trucker farts a demon sprouts a horn"

[@Davis-carmencita]

The Bible says God loves a cheerful giver and looking at this movie and seeing how it impacts and touched everybody's heart that is doing a reaction to this movie you can tell these people are cheerful givers because they're not giving with a grudging spirit they're giving with a kind spirit because they know how he impact their lives and what he did for them even though this may not be a true movie a lot of people can learn something from the movie

[@camickelson]

And His Mom and Brother are there ❤

[@marleybob3157]

Well done! Definitely worth saving and rewatching.

[@VonRye]

My wife and I love this movie so much that we named our youngest Goldendoodle "Zuzu Petals"

[@Kanieht.L]

Hahaha …. Awesome that name is awesome… I haven’t watched this movie in a while and the last time I heard that named mentioned in a movie was the adventures of Ford Fairlane…..

[@emotionalideas]

And like clockwork we watched it again right after Thanksgiving Dinner -cause everyone knows that's just what you're supposed to do.

[@walterroma7368]

Well constructed reaction video. Good job!

[@melodyireland1070]

My all time FAVORITE movie❄️

[@bighuge1060]

This was an enjoyable compilation, thank you. I would watch a horrendously colorized VHS of this movie every year while decorating the house and graduated to the superb double DVD edition. It was a ritual. What still amazes me is how poorly this movie was received at the time. It had a unique but successful structure and delivered with its writing, acting and directing.

[@michaelfontanelli2450]

Why was this film such a flop with audiences and critics in 1947? Who knows? Two more bombs in their initial release that are considered masterpieces now are Duck Soup with the Marx Brothers (1933) and The Wizard of Oz (1939). It’s hard to believe those films lost money, but that’s apparently true.

[@johnclawed]

@@michaelfontanelli2450 One critic called it "Capra corn." People thought it was corny because it told them something they already knew. By the 70's people didn't know it any more, so it stopped being corny.

[@Dalehenrickson]

Tears of joy

[@chefskiss6179]

Beautiful beautiful beautiful editing job...THANK YOU for this! I can't wait for the day when we get a montage for 1951's A Christmas Carol, Alistair Sim knocks it out of the park!

[@nathandc]

A beautifully put together set of reactions, thank you!!

[@deanwalker9605]

Its a Wonderful Life, RoboCop, E.T., The Dark Knight. The four best film endings Ive ever seen

[@PatrickFitzgerald-wt9fc]

Beautiful! I love this movie! Great Job!!!

[@LarsSmith-rv4ot]

I've seen a lot of these "Wonderful Life" reactions over the last 2 years. Never thought of it but "India" "explorewithindia" brought up that if George had killed himself he would have missed the townsfolk helping him. I know it's a movie but that would have been so sad. Good job, great reactions.

[@LukeLovesRose]

Its A Wonderful Life is not only the greatest Christmas movie ever, its arguably the greatest Christian movie this side of The Passion. I imagine Jesus would want this ending for all of us. Seeing so many neighbors and friends come together to save George, thats what i would call heaven on Earth

[@allensaunders449]

Don't put it in a box. It's not a Christian movie it's a humanity movie

[@vvrrtt1994]

​@@allensaunders449dude...they were literally praying for George and singing Hark the Herald Angels at the end. Come on, it is a Christian theme shown at Christmas time! George is a representative take on Jesus in that he was always a servant to others before himself.

[@allensaunders449]

@vvrrtt1994 I'm Jewish it's a film about humanity first and foremost. So they are praying it's theme trans ends all religious parameters.. it's like Santa Claus. He has become a being if pure goodwill over a religious icon . When has religion ever been about kindness in real life. Not often in this world

[@LukeLovesRose]

@@allensaunders449 We all know how you all feel about Jesus.

[@vvrrtt1994]

​@@allensaunders449Allen, you are correct that religion often twists things and makes a mess. Jesus, the Jewish Messiah is the one I follow and I wonder if you ever considered the writings of Isaiah in the Jewish scriptures. This was written 700 years before Jesus, who was he writing about? Isaiah 53 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. 4 Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. 6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. 8 By oppression[a] and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.[b] 9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes[c] his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. 11 After he has suffered, he will see the light of life[d] and be satisfied[e]; by his knowledge[f] my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[g] and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[h] because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

[@selfingwithclare]

The best reaction ever to this film is Just Trust Ash!

[@MatthiaGryffine]

Thank you for being the only reaction channel to do a Christmas movie so far

[@jeffdetmer4681]

One of the very best movies ever. There are 2 more old Christmas movies everyone should watch if you haven't yet. Both starring Bing Crosby. One is called White Christmas and the other is Going My Way. Don;t know that either of them have quite the wallop at the end that this does, but really need to see them y'all. Everybody have a Merry Christmas and a Happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.

[@johnclawed]

Remember "The Waltons" from the 70's? The 2-hour pilot episode is also a Christmas movie and it's on youtube. When shown as a movie its title is "The Homecoming." No Santa or angels. Just a family at Christmas in the depression.

[@Adam-mcg-uk]

Don't forget The Bishop's Wife

[@Otokichi786]

For a real change of pace, take a look at "Our Vines Grow Tender Grapes" (). Here Edward G. Robinson, usually associated with tough guy criminals is a wise Norwegian-American farmer!

[@otisroseboro5613]

Happy Holidays ⛄❄️ Everyone & Nice Reactions 😊

[@johnscott4196]

Very sweet

[@mtweiss01]

My late mother‘s favorite movie. It wasn’t Christmas until we all sat down cross legged on the living room floor to watch this movie in our old black-and-white TV. I watched it with her all through the 70s and 80s and 90s and 2000s until she passed, and I can’t watch it without thinking of her. She had her wings before she left us. ❤️🙏🏻

[@cherylkincaid5643]

Thank you for posting this!!!

[@ACatWhisperer]

This movie flopped at the box office and didn’t become popular until 1974, when a clerical error caused it to enter the public domain, which allowed television stations to air it freely, ultimately leading to its widespread popularity as a Christmas classic today. This happened due to a simple oversight by the film's copyright holder at the time, Republic Pictures. Because the copyright wasn't renewed, the film became available for any television station to broadcast without paying licensing fees.

[@bubbalouification]

Colonel Stewart used his PTSD from WWII to help him with this role

[@roberthultz9023]

When Jimmy Stewart returned from WW2 he thought he'd tanked his movie career by being off screen for four years and when he opened the first script the studio sent him after the Air Force he thought the studio had reached the same conclusion. Still; he needed a job and he made the movie anyway. It bombed. But television put it in front of generation after generation of kids, parents and grandparents; and thank God for it.

[@imocchidoro]

The reactions are as beautiful as the movie. Hee Haw and Merry Christmas.

[@mic88ed]

Don't tell them that this movie failed at the movie theaters. 😮

[@Otokichi786]

Also, I LIKE "Capracorn!"

[@abovethehook665]

People still grieving from WWII weren’t ready for it. Can’t blame them.

[@dianedeck3128]

No TBR Schmidt ? Aww you missed out on him saying how he is in the best mood after this movie after feeling so down.

[@johnchitwood8799]

Christmas is gonna be hard on me for a long time. I lost my mom on Christmas Day of 2021, we were very close, it still hurts, even at 52 yrs old

[@kathrynglenn8941]

"He didn't even need to fix anything. He just needed to not die."

[@Smileybeeblevrox]

If only the commenters comments were always true, but some people are never selfish and always help others, yet they are in a bad way and no one comes to help them. Many people don't get kindness back when they give it.

[@andrewpetik2034]

I agree....in fact, my wife and I have been on the receiving end of those unkind actions. The key is to not let the hardness of this world rob us of our kind, generous spirits. I, personally, will not allow other people's evil actions, unintentionally or otherwise, cause me to lose my happiness, my joy or my inner peace. I hope and pray that you and your family have a wonderful Holiday Season. 💪✌️🙏

[@richardduffy3115]

Great movie and reactions! 2 other Christmas time movies that are really good too, are the Bishop's Wife, made about the same time as It's a Wonderful life, with Cary Grant as the Angel, and Loretta Young as the wife. The other one is The Preacher's Wife with Denzel Washington as the Angel, and Whitney Houston as the wife. Hope you get to see these too!!

[@markdenio4537]

The Bishop’s Wife also has Karolyn Grimes, who played Zuzu in It’s a Wonderful Life.

[@abovethehook665]

Donna Reed (Mary) was flawless.

[@pfcampos7041]

❤❤❤❤

[@robertvantine2810]

I have a book about the making of this movie, actually two copies. It covers all the ins and outs of everything. At the end, the author states George still should have been arrested. Just because you return the money doesn't forgive the crime. And yes, I've seen the movie several times a year since 1989. Probably between 50-100 times,not counting partial viewings when someone else was watching it.

[@LukeLovesRose]

Why are so many people so sensitive to Georges actions toward Mary?? Even when he cant stop kissing her. WTF? Trust me, people. Mary loves George so much, he can do no wrong.

[@Pandaemoni]

Technically, if you are charged with embezzlement from a bank, you can't just "repay" the money they think you stole and then the charges go away. I think George and Uncle Billy would be fine in court if they just admitted Uncle Billy lost the money. Billy is a guy who "forgot" to go to George's wedding and that was when he was relatively young and virtually everyone in town could testify to that.

[@Mamadukes1953]

It’s a movie that’s why the charges can just go away ../

[@Pandaemoni]

@@Mamadukes1953 Of course it's a movie and so that is why it has such an unrealistic ending. They could have re-written the end of the Titanic movie to say that aliens rescued Jack from the sea...but that would have been unrealistic and would have raised a few eyebrows as a result. As a viewer we are supposed to willingly suspend our disbelief, but that doesn't mean we have to be open minded to the point where we can never question anything.

[@hmsljj]

Now for a little levity , back in the 90s SNL made a follow up to "It's A Wonderful Life" beginning with Uncle Billy remembering where he left the $8000. It's hysterical: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKibaqJmlsuVaKM

[@vinnydaq13]

To this day, it still pisses me off that Potter never gets busted for stealing Uncle Billy’s $8000. 🤬

[@allenmccreary2359]

I can’t get past the “asbestos” snow

[@itt23r]

The hands down best reaction to this movie is from a reactor named Nikki Lu. How could you have missed it?

[@primemover1416]

Everyone has expectations and would like their life to be want they wanted it to be. Sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't. And yes, life could be a little better than it currently is. But it also could be a lot worse too. Enjoy what you currently have and strive to obtain the things in life you feel you need to make life worth living.

[@andrewpetik2034]

That's it, isn't it? To be thankful for the blessings we have. Merry Christmas

[@timothygoforth9701]

You know the Bedford falls was modeled after is Seneca falls New York ..upstate New York the little girl zu zu has a cafe in town dedicated to movie

[@Otokichi786]

Don't forget Frostbite Falls, just down the road. Then there's that town in Oregon with The Mystery Shack, "Gravity Falls.";)

[@howardweinstein1324]

Believe it or not, this picture didn't do well when it first came out, it became a classic over the years when it was shown on TV during Christmas .

[@Zale-vj439]

BIGGEST SPOILER ALERT! YOU SHOULD PUT THAT IN THE TITLE OF YOUR VIDEO! (i've seen the movie dozens of times, but I'm talking for those who haven't)

[@bobandrews-vo9wy]

The movie was a flop in 1946 because it was just after the end of world war 2 and people really didn't feel like going to a movie with hope in it because there was almost six hundred thousand Americans who will never spend another Christmas with the people who loved them.

[@213thAIB]

What is that organ music for?

[@barbaramattson817]

may-bee try it happened on 5TH ave.

[@johnomeara6994]

Donna Reed died of cancer.

[@tgchism]

To think that the movie did not do well when first released because people didn't want to be reminded of the Great Depression and the war that had just ended a couple of years before.

[@vvrrtt1994]

It's a Wonderful Life...The original Go Fund Me!!!!!

[@lvgl49goo]

They do NOT make movies like this anymore.

[@unclebobunclebob]

What if Clarence had never come? Mary was still collecting the cash, wasn't she? But I guess maybe George mighthave jumped.

[@mikerobertson4041]

And just think, it was not very popular at all when it was first released.

[@DavidBenMoshe-ni1gl]

Potter got away with stealing $8000.

[@unscentedcologne8293]

Started to snow again when George prayed to God, not Clarence.

[@gregory593]

The title is ironic, because for Geroge, it wasn't a wonderful life. It was a wonderful life for everyone else because of him.

[@td811]

It was a wonderful life for him. He didn’t realize it until he could see it and his perspective changed. It is good to receive for sure but it more blessed to give than to receive.

[@chrissyhoran404]

Sam also knew that if it wasn’t for George telling him about the science advances with soybeans making plastics & his suggestion to build the plant in Bedford Falls, he might not be as successful as his was.

[@forestpepper3621]

Apparently the original ending of "It's a Wonderful Life" was very dark, completely opposite of what we see today. The whole thing with Clarence the guardian angel turned out to be a drunken hallucination, and George Bailey actually spent many years in prison for embezzlement, divorcing his wife, with the uncle who lost the money becoming an alcoholic. George's friends and family ultimately turned their backs on him in his hour of need, refusing to give any money at all. The evil Mr. Potter, taking advantage of the tragic situation, quickly moved to buy out the bankrupt "Bailey Savings and Loan" bank, and then Mr. Potter ends up marrying George Bailey's ex-wife Mary, who could not turn down Potter's proposal out of financial desperation, spending the rest of her days in a loveless marriage, as a trophy wife, with the kids growing up to be selfish, spoiled brats. However, this darker ending did not go over well with test audiences, and so it was changed to the delusional "feel good" ending that we have today. Ok, so I may have made this whole "original ending" story up, but you know it would have been far more realistic. Merry Christmas!

[@Davis-carmencita]

I am a new subscriber to your channel and I would love for you all to do a reaction to the musical video Frozen by Joyner Lucas it has a wonderful meaning and it also has a warning at the end of the video

[@jbwade5676]

Stop do that detele Videos

[@EamonKelly]

what?

[@TOM_GINGERALE]

Republicans would never like this movie, because it's all about helping others, even giving money to help them out. They'd never go for that.

[@kennethdawson7774]

What planet are you from? Religious CONSERVATIVES give more to charity (and participate in more non-political charity work) than leftists do. Leftists are much more likely to just say "let the government do it" than actually go out and help people.

[@marklane61]

Really? My neighbor's have a fruit and veggy stand that's free for anyone that needs it. They're Republicans

[@jbwade5676]

I hate it a wonderful life

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

Should be called it's a wonderful lie, as there's no way the ending would really happen. No one cares. Btw, you'll shoot your eye out, kid. 😂

[@joebetancourtjr.54]

A really sad movie is “ on borrowed time “ 1939 with Lionel Barrymore

[@Mamadukes1953]

Thanks I’m always looking for a good movie to watch and I enjoy old movies much more than some of these newer ones with all the cgi …. I’m gonna check that out right now thanks again and merry Christmas