It's A Wonderful Life

Overview

George Bailey is a small-town banker whose life seems so desperate that he contemplates ending it all.  He had always wanted to leave Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart led him to stay. He sacrficed his own education for his brother's, kept the family-run savings and loan afloat, protected the town from the greedy banker, and married his childhood sweetheart. As he was preparing to jump from a bridge, his guardian angel intercedes, showing him what life would have been like for the residents of Bedford Falls if he had never been born.