I saw "The Man Who Invented Christmas", starring Dan Stevens-Beauty and the Beast_2017, Night At the Museum:Secret of the Tomb; Christopher Plummer-The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo_2011, The Sound of Music; Jonathan Pryce-Game of Thrones_tv, the G.I. Joe movies and Morfydd Clark-Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Madame Bovary. This is a biography/retelling of how Charles Dickens created his famous Christmas story, 'A Christmas Carol', back in 1843. You know the story; a miser named Scrooge, only cares about money and profits and is shown the error of his ways by three spirits, the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. Dan plays the author that has had some success with his writing but has now hit a wall. He has writer's block. This movie tells the story of how he overcomes it. Christopher plays Dan's idea of what Scrooge should look like and Christopher- along with other characters-will appear to Dan and help with his creativity. No one else can see them, they are in his imagination. Morfydd plays Dan's wife and Jonathan plays his father. There are some flashback scenes that cover Dan's life as a young lad and how his life was effected. I guess it is intended as a Christmas movie but it's not really like a traditional one. It's more of a behind the scenes story. It's rated "PG" for thematic elements and some mild language and has a running time of 1 hour & 44 minutes. It's a descent telling of the story but a little slow in parts. It's not one that I would buy on DVD but it would be alright as a rental.
Review of The Man Who Invented Christmas
