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A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebeneezer Scrooge is a stranger waking up from his sleep because of the spirits that were presented to him on Christmas Eve. The spirits told him about the many challenges and disasters that would cause him to collapse as the misery he might have, the opportunities he wasted and the conflicts he faced, and perhaps tell him the dire fate he would have if he did not change the way he acted. Is a terrifying story in the life of a man whose life has turned upside down. In addition, there are many phenomena that occur at Christmas are unexpected.
10 September 1960, Grayshott, Hampshire, England, UK
4 July 1962, Gustine, California, USA
12 October 2001, San Diego, California, USA
5 February 1969, USA
26 October 1942, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
8 October 1993, Texarkana, Texas, USA
November 22, 2010
Zemeckis's retelling of A Christmas Carol is solid, most importantly letting the story itself shine through where it naturally does.
November 06, 2009
Want the creeps for Christmas? Then check out the latest version of A Christmas Carol.
November 10, 2009
The motion capture animation is top-notch and it's hard not to be impressed with what Robert Zemeckis has wrought, even if there's the occasional sense he's pandering to an audience that can't get through a 90 minute story without a few yuks and a chase.
February 15, 2012
A remarkable and effective adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel that manages to overcome the familiarity of its source material and become something more fulfilling.
November 06, 2009
Zemeckis' film preserves much of Dickens' original dialogue and detail while amplifying the utter ethereal strangeness of the ghosts.
September 30, 2011
A supernatural parable of terrifying, chain-rattling spirits and mind-warping time travel, with a theme of social responsibility that extends far beyond seasonal cheer.
November 06, 2009
Does this entertainment achieve a timelessness beyond its exquisite source material? Not even. Yet there's pleasure to be had and relief in feeling the filmmakers didn't Scrooge it up either.
January 02, 2011
Bah humbug: Zemeckis and Carrey screw with Scrooge.
November 06, 2009
There's a lot of dark magic in this Dickensian Yuletide.
December 19, 2010
Zemeckis and Disney's collaboration brings about a cold and forgettable variation using the advent of animation and technology to destroy the magic...
June 10, 2012
One cannot help but feel the same effect could have been accomplished by simply making a live action film with state-of-the-art visual effects.
November 06, 2009
How they made it into this Disney adaptation unprettified is a Christmas miracle in itself.
