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It’s the early 1840s and London writer Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) is struggling a nasty case of author’s block. His final three books have been complete flops, and the strain to put in writing a magical new story to grip the general public has by no means been so excessive.
Before lengthy, nonetheless, his new story begins to develop in his head; a Christmas story a couple of miser named Ebenezer Scrooge (personified by Christopher Plummer) who’s challenged by a collection of mysterious apparitions. The characters develop fantastically, however earlier than lengthy he begins to hit one other roadblock when he cannot work out how you can end it.
Not solely does he face the problem of developing with an appropriate ending for ‘A Christmas Carol’, but additionally getting it printed and distributed by Christmas which is simply six weeks away. To make issues worse, his father John Dickens (Jonathan Pryce) – who berates him mercilessly about his monetary tasks – comes to stick with him, which solely serves to disrupt the writing course of much more.
Based on the 2008 ebook ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits’ by Les Standiford, the movie is a comedy biopic directed by the Primetime Emmy nominated Bharat Nalluri (‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day’, ‘Life On Mars’) with a screenplay from Susan Coyne (‘Anne of Green Gables’, ‘The Best Laid Plans’).
Since its november launch, ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ has already received Heartland Film’s Truly Moving Picture Award, and for a great cause; ‘A Christmas Carol’ is a narrative that modified the vacation season perpetually, and continues to be one that’s revisited annually.
