
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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76/100 A perfectly fine adaptation of the classic and on all fronts a perfectly good movie. I am convinced that those who say stuff like Die Hard is a Christmas movie have never been sat down to have this beamed into their skulls. This is Christmas. I really don't have much to say about this one, it's just a really nice movie. There are little touches from the book I like, like how Marley's ghost clangs its chains or the writhing mass of ghosts, here depicted as a bunch of actors composited into one shot in a pretty cool effect for a film this early. Still can't get an accurate portrayal of the Ghost of Christmas Past, though. The characters themselves, though, have a little flourish added to them. We get to see the Cratchits other than Bob a bit earlier than in the book, and it works to flesh them out. The one who gets the highest profit out of this, though, is, as in most things,…