That’s the case with Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer), who haunts the writer’s existence for the weeks he is consumed by his Christmas tale. They came to him, often fully formed, in a series of encounters that some might call hallucinations. What’s more, the movie tells us, he didn’t devise his characters from thin air. He has a contentious relationship with his ne’er-do-well father (Jonathan Pryce) and his relationship with his wife is strained because of the pressure he feels to deliver another popular novel…going so far as to publish it himself, at great expense.ĭickens collected odd and unusual names, marking them in a notebook (not unlike his latter-day admirer W.C. But Dickens’ subsequent books are flops and he is living beyond his means in an elegant London townhouse. Oliver Twist has made him a worldwide celebrity and led to a wildly successful lecture tour of the United States. Dan Stevens is extremely likable as the animated author. Who among us couldn’t use a little good cheer right now? The Man Who Invented Christmas supplies just that, in a fictionalized story about how Charles Dickens devised A Christmas Carol at a low point in his career.
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