The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
"How Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” and created a tradition."
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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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Cast
Dan Stevens
Charles Dickens
Christopher Plummer
Scrooge
Jonathan Pryce
Mr. John Dickens
Justin Edwards
John Forster / Ghost...
Morfydd Clark
Kate Dickens
Donald Sumpter
Haddock / Ghost of M...
Miles Jupp
Thackeray
Simon Callow
Leech
Miriam Margolyes
Mrs. Fisk
Ian McNeice
Chapman
Bill Paterson
Mr. Grimsby
John Henshaw
Butcher / Mr. Fezziw...
Annette Badland
Butcher's Wife / Mrs...
Katie McGuinness
Fanny Dickens / Mrs....
Pearse Kearney
Henry Jr. / Tiny Tim