A friend* brought to my attention a movie from 1970 called The Angel Levine in which a Jewish man played by Zero Mostel loses hope in his life until an angel appears in his kitchen with the assignment of showing him that he should have faith. But It's a Wonderful Life, this is not. Mostel’s character Mishkin is beset by travails, chief among them his beloved wife Fanny is very ill and he has very little money as his own back problems have made it almost impossible to make a living as a tailor. He is not looking for a Divine assist or reminder of how many people he’s touched like Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey, but closer to Job, without a clue how his misfortunes can be squared with the G*d whose rules he has followed all of his life. And the angel who appears in his kitchen is a recently deceased Jew named Alexander Levine, who has his own problems to deal with.