ORIGINAL TITLEThe Man Who Invented Christmas
GENREBiographical comedy-drama · Literary fantasy · Holiday
ABOUT THIS FILM
RUNTIME
104 min
FAMOUS QUOTE
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
Vibe
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Charles Dickens races to create A Christmas Carol while financial pressure, family memories and imagined versions of Scrooge and other characters invade his creative process. Metafictional account of how a foundational christmas text was made; biography used as a playful study of writing, memory and seasonal culture.
MOVIE NIGHT RANK
#54 of 100
Watch for
- Christopher Plummer's Scrooge inside Dickens's imagination
- visualization of the writing process
- publishing deadline pressure
- family history feeding the fictional story
Production notes
Bleecker Street and AFI identify Nalluri as director, Dan Stevens as Dickens, Christopher Plummer as Scrooge, Susan Coyne as screenwriter and Mychael Danna as composer.
Trivia
- Bharat Nalluri directed
- Dan Stevens plays Dickens
- Christopher Plummer plays Scrooge
- AFI lists 104 minutes
- released in 2017
Legacy
accessible gateway into Dickens, publishing history and the cultural construction of modern Christmas; useful companion to the many Carol adaptations.