A Christmas Carol

Tag Area: TV Series
Feature Film

A Christmas Carol


Patrick Steward delivers a nuanced portrayal of Scrooge in this faithful adaptation. Much of the dialog came verbatim from Dickens’s original, and the costumers paid careful tribute to John Leech’s original illustrations. —Michael Main
Scrooge: Is there no chance that boy will be spared?
Christmas Present: Not if the future remains unaltered.
Dressed in a black Victorian tophat, black coat, and black gloves, Patrick
                Stewart (as Scrooge) raises his cane as if to strike.
  • Fantasy
  • Debatable Time Travel
Miniseries

A Christmas Carol


A radical retelling of the holiday classic that starts with a Victorian performance of the Charles Dickens tale before diving into the imagination of one of the children in the audience, taking the story to a darker fantasy realm. —from publicity material
A dark cloaked man with a twisted hand beckons top-hatted Guy Pearce (as
                Scrooge).
  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel