A Christmas Carol

About A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

A Christmas Carol is a 1984 fantasy tv movie film directed by Clive Donner. It runs 101 minutes and was released in October 1984.

Its themes are hopeful, future, redemption, and christmas eve. It is adapted from a novel.

George C. Scott takes the lead as Ebenezer Scrooge, Roger Rees as Fred Holywell, David Warner as Bob Cratchit, and Susannah York as Mrs. Cratchit. The screenplay is by Roger O. Hirson. Produced by Entertainment Partners Ltd.. In the United States it streams on MGM Plus.

The Muppet Christmas Carol and Scrooge make useful companions to A Christmas Carol, all filed under christmas. TMDB voters put it at 7.5 out of 10 across 444 votes and it carries a PG rating.