Amazon Prime Video is under fire for streaming a butchered version of 'It’s a Wonderful Life'

Amazon Prime Video is under fire for streaming a butchered version of “It’s a Wonderful Life” that guts the beloved Christmas classic. Viewers say the abridged cut — roughly 22 minutes shorter than the original 130-minute film — removes the iconic “Pottersville” sequence, the pivotal stretch that explains why despairing hero George Bailey suddenly rediscovers the will to live. In that part, Bailey declares his wish never to have been born and gets to see how crummy life would have been without him.