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| Distributed by | RHI Entertainment |
| Directed by | David Hugh Jones |
| Produced by | Dyson Lovell |
| Written by | Peter Barnes |
| Based on | A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| Starring | Patrick Stewart Richard E. Grant Joel Grey |
| Music by | Stephen Warbeck |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Original channel | TNT |
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| Running time | 95 minutes |
A Christmas Carol is a 1999 television film adaptation of Charles Dickens's famous novel A Christmas Carol. It was directed by David Hugh Jones and stars Patrick Stewart as Ebenezer Scrooge and Richard E. Grant as Bob Cratchit. The film was produced after Patrick Stewart performed a series of successful theatrical readings of "A Christmas Carol" on Broadway and in London. The film aired on the TNT Network.
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Plot [edit]
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In the Victorian period, Ebenezer Scrooge is a skinflint businessman who loathes the Christmas season and begrudges having to give time off to his best employee, Bob Cratchit. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his late friend and business partner, Jacob Marley, who in the afterlife has come to see the errors of his ways. Marley arranges for Scrooge to be visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come in hopes of teaching Scrooge of the importance of embracing the joy of Christmas. Scrooge reforms, learning to keep the spirit of Christmas alive in his heart, ultimately becoming a well-loved and respected man.
Inspiration [edit]
Rather than deliberately trying to resemble either the 1938 MGM version or the George C. Scott made-for-TV version in the cheerfulness and "Christmassy" feeling of their settings, the 1999 film takes as its inspiration the classic 1951 film version with Alastair Sim in the grimness of some of its scenes and set design, although it still includes many cheerful moments. It includes one scene almost always omitted from other adaptations - the "lighthouse" montage which shows different groups of people in different sections of the country singing Silent Night.
Main cast [edit]
- Patrick Stewart - Ebenezer Scrooge
- Richard E. Grant - Bob Cratchit
- Joel Grey - Ghost of Christmas Past
- Ian McNeice - Albert Fezziwig
- Saskia Reeves - Mrs. Cratchit
- Desmond Barrit - Ghost of Christmas Present
- Bernard Lloyd - Jacob Marley
- Dominic West - Fred
- Trevor Peacock - Old Joe
- Liz Smith - Mrs. Dilber
- Elizabeth Spriggs - Mrs. Riggs
- Kenny Doughty - Young Ebenezer Scrooge
- Laura Fraser - Belle
- Celia Imrie - Mrs. Bennett
- Claire Slater - Martha Cratchit
- Tim Potter - Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
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External links [edit]
- A Christmas Carol at the Internet Movie Database
- A Christmas Carol at AllRovi
- A Christmas Carol at Rotten Tomatoes
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