Christmas Carol: The Movie
The film begins with a live-action sequence set in Boston in 1857, the site of a live reading by renowned novelist Dickens. As he begins his 'story of ghosts' a woman in the audience screams because she has seen a mouse and Dickens points out that this is appropriate since his story begins with a mouse. At this point the story turns into the animated version and Dickens explains that the mouse, named Gabriel, carries a glimmer of hope amidst the glaring co-existence of rich and poor in the streets of London. Throughout the subsequent unfolding of the well-known story Gabriel acts as a miniature Greek chorus, providing younger members of the audience with a point of entry into the story and, in the case of the potentially frightening elements (the Ghosts of Past, Present and Future), a place of refuge.
PG
HD
Animation, Family
2001
77 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : Christmas Carol: The Movie
- Duration : 77 min
- Languages : English
- Writers : Piet Kroon (screenplay), Robert Llewellyn (screenplay), Charles Dickens (book)
- Directors : Jimmy T. Murakami min
- Imdb : 5.5 (1277 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.2 (3106 votes)
- Actors : Simon Callow, Kate Winslet, Nicolas Cage, Jane Horrocks
Movie Storyline
The film begins with a live-action sequence set in Boston in 1857, the site of a live reading by renowned novelist Dickens. As he begins his 'story of ghosts' a woman in the audience screams because she has seen a mouse and Dickens points out that this is appropriate since his story begins with a mouse. At this point the story turns into the animated version and Dickens explains that the mouse, named Gabriel, carries a glimmer of hope amidst the glaring co-existence of rich and poor in the streets of London. Throughout the subsequent unfolding of the well-known story Gabriel acts as a miniature Greek chorus, providing younger members of the audience with a point of entry into the story and, in the case of the potentially frightening elements (the Ghosts of Past, Present and Future), a place of refuge.