A Christmas Carol (1999)

This adaptation of the Charles Dickens story is a made for television movie for the TNT network. Patrick Stewart is convincing as a truly mean and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge Where other versions of the story provide flat characters, the actors in this production breathe life into what can easily be predicable performances.

Sets and special effects help add realism and interest. The film was shot on location in England and at London's Ealing Studios. The filmmakers made great use of modern filmmaking technology in its depiction of the ghosts, realization of the classic scenes and in the movie.

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