Christmas Carol: The Movie

A Christmas Tale ( Original Title: Christmas Carol: The Movie ) is a Christmas movie from 2001, directed by Jimmy T. Murakami. The story is largely based on the 1843 published story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Action

The greedy Ebenezer Scrooge bought by Mr. Leach to a debtor book and hands it over to his debt collector Joe. The leaves all debtors who can not fully pay off their debts immediately to jail and sell their property. Affected is Dr. Lambert, whose hospital has to be closed for the poor therefore. His nurse Belle was once the childhood sweetheart of Scrooge and writes that a pleading letter, so people have another doctor. Belle was the best friend of Scrooge's sister Fan

Scrooge himself detests Christmas and pours to a group of carol singers outside his home a bucket of cold water. He meets the small Tim, who is the son of his staff, Mr. Cratchit. Tim becomes ill. One evening, Scrooge gets a visit from the ghost of his deceased business partner Marley, seven years ago. The tells him that he is still haunted by three different ghosts. The first in the morning when the bell strikes one. The ghost of Christmas past leads him to his former school and his strict father, who sent him to school to an apprenticeship at Fezziwig to London, and to his first love Belle, who because of his hard-heartedness separated shortly before the planned marriage of him.

The Spirit of Christmas Present takes him to the Christmas party of his nephew Fred and his employee Mr. Cratchit. The spirit of the future shows him the death of little Tim and his own grave, and people's reactions to his death. Scrooge wakes up on the morning of Christmas day and can a boy buy a goose that he shall bring Cratchit. Dr. Lambert is released from prison and can handle the small Tim and his employee Cratchit Scrooge quadrupled the content.

Synchronization

Background

• In the original version begins and ends the film with live-action scenes in which the one being played by Simon Callow Charles Dickens sees him at a theater in Boston his story A Christmas Carol aloud to an audience during a reading tour through the United States.
• Alternative title of the film Christmas Carol - Christmas Carol and Charles Dickens - A Christmas tale.
• The theme song is sung What If by Kate Winslet.

Reviews

" Bela Gloser Cartoons by Charles Dickens ' Christmas story in the style of a coarse -scale morning broadcast. It starts with real scenes that show the writer on a reading tour in America before the real action begins, which develops from the perspective of mice. "

" For younger viewers animated adaptation of Charles Dickens' Christmas classic, which tells the famous story from the perspective of mice and also otherwise allowed some liberties in interpretation. The animation is a little unusual, the original speakers of the figures, however, are first class with Kate Winslet on Nicolas Cage to Rhys Ifans. "