It's nearly Christmas and even the dry lawyer who is Further or Alternatively feels the need to supply you with some seasonal content. It's A Wonderful Life (IAWL) is the obvious subject for FOA Christmas fare since there are, as we all know, two heartwarming films about a family man and financier called George and I have written the definitive work on the other one (Mary Poppins).
However, it turns out that Niall Gooch has saved me much of the work of writing about IAWL by this piece, which I recommend to you. I have only a few points to add from a more or less Christmassy angle.
