He was claiming that he detonator had been given to an ordinary citizen who would push he button if they didn""t comply with his rules.But there was no obituary because the day that I died was also the day I started to live.But that comes later."The setting was a big city, where Patience Phillips (Halle Berry) worked in an art department job ("the practical version of my passion") as a graphic designer of ads for beauty cream.Scriptwriter Sidney Howard wrote the screenplay based upon his 1934 stage adaptation of Sinclair Lewis"" 1929 novel of the same name.He will remain in Bedford Falls to operate he company, inherit the responsibilities of running the loan company, and instead send his younger brother to college, using his own college savings.Didn""t quite make that though.So now I""m just trying to play it cool.Not quite making that either." She had broken up with Dave (with a "whole Bette Davis, through-finished-kaput scene").According to her effeminate friend Jay-Jay (Duke Everts): "I happen to think she could be a first-rate artist if her damned hormones didn""t get in the way.