What's your favorite quote from "It's a Wonderful Life?

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Permalink Reply by Pat Coyle on December 23, 2008 at 9:28pm

George: this is a very interesting situation

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Permalink Reply by Matt Theobald on December 23, 2008 at 11:27pm

I'll take $17.50.

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Permalink Reply by Amy Stark on December 24, 2008 at 7:24am

Wasn't that character played by the Grandmother on The Walton's? I can't remember her name.

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Permalink Reply by Scott Semester on December 24, 2008 at 12:35am

I've actually never seen the movie. (I know.) But I saw "This Wonderful Life," the (for lack of a better term) wonderful one-man re-enactment of "It's a Wonderful Life" playing at IRT now through January 4.

Not having seen the movie itself, I can't speak authoritatively, but thanks to the IRT production, I have now seriously considered adding Sam Wainwright's catchphrase "Hee haw!" to my everyday vocabulary.

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Permalink Reply by Nicki Laycoax on December 24, 2008 at 1:35am

I've never seen it! How about, "what's your fav quote from Ntn'l Lampoons Christmas Vaca"? I can absolutely answer that one!

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Permalink Reply by Scott Semester on December 24, 2008 at 1:47am

TOTALLY OFF TOPIC, but I absolutely LOVE:

Uncle Lewis: They want you to say Grace.
[Bethany shakes her head in confusion]
Uncle Lewis: The BLESSING!
Aunt Bethany: [they all pose for prayer] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands/ One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Clark: Amen.

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Permalink Reply by Nicki Laycoax on December 24, 2008 at 2:19am

Oh, goodness. I definitely hijacked the post. Sorry, Pat.

Scott, that is definitely one of the best parts of NLCV. I wonder if there are any theaters showing it around the city?

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Permalink Reply by Amy Stark on December 24, 2008 at 7:26am

Nicki... You must rent this AND White Christmas--both works of art that capture the sentiment and magic of the season, IMHO

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Permalink Reply by Amy Stark on December 24, 2008 at 7:22am

George Bailey:-- "I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next year, and the year after that. I'm shakin' the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm gonna see the world. Italy, Greece, the Parthenon, the Colosseum. Then, I'm comin' back here and go to college and see what they know... And then I'm gonna build things. I'm gonna build airfields, I'm gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories high, I'm gonna build bridges a mile long..."

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Permalink Reply by Chris Horn on December 24, 2008 at 8:16am

I might be the only person I know who doesnt like this movie.

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Permalink Reply by Becky Pruitt on December 24, 2008 at 8:27am

Mary: What are you doing out there, picketing??

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Permalink Reply by Jon Collins on December 24, 2008 at 9:51am

Found it on IMDB, cause there is no way I would remember it all. My Dad works for a Credit Union and he credits this speech as to inspiring him to get started in that field.

Just a minute - just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was - why, in the twenty-five years since he and Uncle Billy started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry to school, let alone me. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter, and what's wrong with that? Why - here, you're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You - you said - what'd you say a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken down that they... Do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you'll ever be.

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