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A Christmas Carol (PG) PENNY-PINCHING curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) prepares for Christmas by berating his employee Bob Cratchit (Gary Oldman) and his impossibly cheerful nephew Fred (Colin Firth). That night, the spirit of Old Marley (Oldman again) visits Scrooge and reveals the miser is heading for a grim fate unless he entertains visits from three ghostly guides.
The apparitions propel the grouch on a tour of past, present and future, with visions of his mentor Old Fezziwig (Bob Hoskins), his sweetheart Belle (Robin Wright Penn) and the Cratchit family in the throes of despair. Robert Zemeckis's technologically groundbreaking adaptation remains largely faithful to the text, using some of Dickens's dialogue word for word. Zemeckis can't resist the odd directorial flourish, but the technology never obscures the heartfelt emotion of the story, including some heartbreaking scenes between Bob and his wife as they prepare to lose their youngest son to his unspecified illness. FILM ... EXTRAS ...See the full content of this document
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