If you’re among the few Boston Red Sox fans who’ve never seen the classic tears-of-joy flick ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ starring the incomparable Jimmy Stewart (although Dana Carvey nails him in a historically, hysterically funny Saturday Night Live spoof), then it’s time for you to catch up before another Christmas holiday season passes you by.
Most of us know the story of George Bailey as the industrious, eternally optimistic son, brother, husband, dad and Good Samaritan savings and loan officer who’s always sacrificing, putting other people’s needs before his. That’s until he reaches his breaking point one Christmas Eve, when scatterbrained Uncle Billy loses $8,000 of his nephew’s company funds instead of depositing it at the bank.