“Christmas comes but once a year, but for one man, that's once too often.”
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Jim Carrey
Scrooge / Ghosts of Christmas (voice)
Gary Oldman
Bob Cratchit / Marley / Tiny Tim (voice)
Colin Firth
Fred (voice)
Robin Wright
Fan / Belle (voice)
Cary Elwes
Portly Gentleman / Dick Wilkins / Fiddler / Business Man (voice)
Bob Hoskins
Fezziwig / Old Joe (voice)
Daryl Sabara
Apprentice / Caroler / Beggar / Peter Cratchit (voice)
Steve Valentine
Funerary Undertaker / Topper (voice)
Sage Ryan
Tattered Caroler (voice)
Amber Gainey Meade
Tattered Caroler / Well Dressed Caroler (voice)
A Christmas Carol is a animation, family, fantasy, drama film released in 2009 exploring themes of london, england, based on novel or book, holiday, greed, victorian england, money. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, it stars Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth. Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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