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It's a Wonderful Life influenced The Midnight Library
Added by Media Influence Map · 7 October 2026
The evidence
Matt Haig has acknowledged Capra's It's a Wonderful Life as an inspiration: a despairing protagonist shown the lives they might have had, learning that "often you have a lot more than you think". Nora lives her other lives rather than watching a world without her.
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