Again, It's A Wonderful Life

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By Ned Zeman

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Everybody wants to be Jimmy Stewart. In Hollywood, the land of lemmings, it seems as if every other film out this season offers up that facile formula in which death or near death leads to redemption and/or a change in values. First there were "Ghost" and "Flatliners." Now we have "Mr. Destiny" and "Jacob's Ladder." And December will bring us "Awakenings," in which Robert De Niro comes out of a coma, and "Regarding Henry," starring Harrison Ford as a lawyer who is shot and yes. rediscovers life.

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