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How Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” and created a tradition. - The Man Who Invented Christmas
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Title: The Man Who Invented Christmas

Release Date: 12 Oct 2017

Runtime: 1h 45m

Genre: Drama, History, Comedy, Family

Director: Rhombus Media, The Mazur Kaplan Company, The Mob Film Company, Parallel Films

Production Companies: Rhombus Media, The Mazur Kaplan Company, The Mob Film Company, Parallel Films

Overview: In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.8 (814 votes)

Cast

  • Charles Dickens: Dan Stevens
  • Scrooge: Christopher Plummer
  • Mr. John Dickens: Jonathan Pryce
  • John Forster / Ghost of Christmas Present: Justin Edwards
  • Kate Dickens: Morfydd Clark
  • Haddock / Ghost of Marley: Donald Sumpter
  • Thackeray: Miles Jupp
  • Leech: Simon Callow
  • Mrs. Fisk: Miriam Margolyes
  • Chapman: Ian McNeice
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