Scanner Colleen is on the road today, and like everyone else "working" on Christmas Eve Eve, is as they say, "phoning it in." But she could not be more insistent about her post title.
So, I realize that outside of Cute Overload, it's unpopular on the Internets to voice sincere affection for anything wholesome, but I feel very strongly about the purity and goodness of the film It's a Wonderful Life. It's one of my all-time favorite movies. I'm already dreading the loathsome Hollywood remake that, let's be realistic, is surely in the pipeline (Tom Hanks in a "triumphant" performance, anyone?), and I just as surely will refuse to acknowledge said remake.
However! Someone beat them to it. Sort of. That someone was Disney, the year was 1985, the movie involved a creepy angel played by Harry Dean Stanton, and the results were: FAIL.
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