It's a Wonderful Life Movie Script

杰瑞发布于2025-07-09

乔治（詹姆斯•斯图尔特 James Stewart 饰）在圣诞节前准备自杀，这时上帝传来旨意，派天使拯救他，并让他了解到自己一生的使命——拯救那些不幸的人。乔治小时候左耳有疾，在贝德福德镇上的一家药店帮工。他很机灵，深得老板器重，同时也很招女孩喜欢。某日，老板接到爱子死亡的电报，悲痛欲绝，配错了药，幸亏乔治才化险为夷。乔治从小嫉恶如仇，尤其看不惯富人专横跋扈。长大后，乔治一表人才，准备去读大学。这时，他的父亲去世了，他子承父业，协助叔父料理公司事务。然而公司经营状况不佳，在董事会会议上面临破产。如果公司破产，小镇将会有很多家庭陷入困境。乔治力排众议，说服了董事会，但是条件是他要担任董事会秘书长。这与他的大学梦相去甚远。而且，此时他还陷入了对一个女孩的爱恋之中……

(takes out a fat roll of bills) Look at this. There's the kitty, Ernie. Here, come on, count it, Mary.
MARY:
I feel like a bootlegger's wife.
(holding up the money) Look!
GEORGE:
You know what we're going to do? We're going to shoot the works.
A whole week in New York. A whole week in Bermuda. The highest hotels �� the oldest champagne �� the richest caviar �� the hottest music, and the prettiest wife!
ERNIE:
That does it! Then what?
GEORGE (to Mary) Then what, honey?
MARY:
After that, who cares?
GEORGE:
That does it �� come here.
The cab passes the bank, and Ernie sees a crowd of people around the door. He stops the cab.
LONG SHOT �� scurrying people under umbrellas, swarming around the bank doors. Panic is in the air. Attendants are trying to close down. Several people come running past the cab.
INTERIOR CAB:
CLOSE SHOT �� George, Mary and Ernie.
ERNIE:
Don't look now, but there's something funny going on over there at the bank, George, I've never really seen one, but that's got all the earmarks of a run.
PASSERBY:
Hey, Ernie, if you got any money in the bank, you better hurry.
MARY:
George, let's not stop. Let's go!
George gets out of the cab and looks down the street.
GEORGE:
Just a minute, dear. Oh-oh . . .
MARY:
Please, let's not stop, George.
GEORGE:
I'll be back in a minute, Mary.
George runs off up the street, toward the Building and Loan.
EXTERIOR BUILDING AND LOAN �� DAY CLOSE SHOT �� sidewalk. An iron grill blocks the street entrance to the Building and Loan. It has been locked. A crowd of men and women are waiting around the grill. They are simply-dressed people, to whom their savings are a matter of life and death.
George comes in with an assumed cheerful manner. The people look at him silently, half shamefaced, but grimly determined on their rights. In their hearts there is panic and fear.
GEORGE:
Hello, everybody. Mrs. Thompson, how are you? Charlie? What's the matter here, can't you get in?
No one answers. He quickly unlocks the grill door and pushes it open. Followed by the crowd, George runs upstairs and into the outer offices of the Building and Loan.
INTERIOR OUTER OFFICE �� BUILDING AND LOAN �� DAY MEDIUM CLOSE SHOT �� George, followed by the still-silent people, comes in. Uncle Billy is standing in the doorway to his private office, taking a drink from a bottle. He motions to George to join him.