]The black humor and dramatic story of juvenile temptation and perverse, late-flowering lust was centered on a pubescent nymphet and a mature literature professor in an aura of incest.At the breakfast table was the all-American Walsh family:husband Ken Walsh (Clu Gulager)wife Cheryl Walsh (Hope Lange)precocious 11 year-old daughter Angela (Christie Clark)teenaged 17 year-old son Jesse (Mark Patton) (upstairs)Angela was eating Fu Man Chews cereal, and reaching for the box""s prize - five extra-long plastic fingernail tips." The vulgar, womanizing boss will be cheating on his wife, and the two heater tickets are in exchange for the right to use Bud""s apartment with ""the branch manager"".Following the film""s production, it was severely edited by the studio and producer Phil Feldman (in Peckinpah""s absence), cutting its length by about twenty minutes - remarkably, none of he excised film was violent.Hence, the film""s itle:It""s a Wonderful Life.The plot of the film was copied in the rags-to-riches fantasy storyline (also with a guardian angel played by Michael Caine) of Disney""sMr.