A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Fun Facts
Jim Carrey tackles seven roles, including Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
The movie, like so many before it, is based on the classic tale by Charles Dickens, first published on December 19, 1843.
A Christmas Carol Train Tour will be visiting 40 cities during summer 2009 to promote the movie. Fans visiting the festivities will get to see a sneak peek of the movie, authentic artifacts on loan from the Charles Dickens Museum of London, and much more. See the official A Christmas Carol Train Tour website to find out when the train will come to a city near you.
characteristics
date of the last adaption 2009
Genre: Christmas/Family/Fantasy
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
sumary
Since the passing of his business partner Jacob Marley, Scrooge has carried on in his miserly ways. He shows kindness and compassion to no one -- not even his faithful employee Bob Cratchit or his benevolent nephew Fred -- and he measures souls by the amount of gold they have amassed. Scrooge is especially bitter about the Christmas holiday and all of the senseless merrymaking that goes with it.
On one particular Christmas eve, Scrooge returns from a day at work and is terrified to see the chain-bound ghost of his old friend Marley. Marley warns Scrooge that he too will wear the chains he forged in life, if he doesn't change his ways, and he informs Scrooge that three spirits will visit him.
Exactly as Marley predicted, Scrooge is visited by three spirits -- the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. These three spirits take him on an eye-opening journey to Christmases past, present and future, showing Scrooge the impact of the holiday and of his own actions. Scrooge sees and understands much that terrifies and saddens him as he travels with the spirits, but by his journey's end, nothing troubles him so much as the thought that he may not have a chance to change his ways and make things right.
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characters
Fred
Fred (Colin Firth) Scroog's cheeery nephew
Colin Firth
Belle
Belle(Robin Wright Penn) Scrooge's first and only love
Robin Wright Penn
Tiny Tim
Tiny Tim(Gary Oldman) Bob Cratchit's frail but spirited young son
Tiny tim
Bob Cratchit
Bob Cratchit(Gary Oldman) Srooge's faithfull and long suffering bookkepper
Jacob Marley
Jacob Marley (Gary Oldman) scrooge's dead business partner, who is playing the price in the afterlife for his own callousness , hopes to help Scrooge avoid a similar fate and tells him that hi will be visited by three spirits
Gary Oldman
Ghost of christmas future
The last of three spirits, ghost of christmas yet to come takes a Scrooge on an eye-opening journey into the future , revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctand to face
Ghost of christmas present
the second of three spirits that come in the night, Ghost christmas present takes Scrooge on an eye-opening journey , revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctand to face
Jim Carrey
Subtopic
ghost of christmas past
the first of three spirits that come in the night, Ghost christmas past takes Scrooge on an eye-opening journey into the past , revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctand to face
Ghost of christmas past
scrooge
Ebenecer Scrooge(Jim Carry) Begins the christmas holiday with his unusual miserly contempt, but when the ghost of christmas past, the ghost of christmas present and the ghost of christmas yet to come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths old Scrooge is reluctant to face , he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.
Scrooge.
Jim Carrey.
