BigList
Login / Sign up
An American Christmas Carol (1979)

An American Christmas Carol (1979)

Drama Fantasy Family TV Movie

Charles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film

Release Date: 1979, December 16
Directors: Eric Till
Countries: Canada, United States of America
Production: Edgar J. Scherick Associates, Jon Slan Productions, Smith-Hemion Productions
Cast: Henry Winkler, Dorian Harewood, Cec Linder, Michael Wincott, Jefferson Mappin, Arlene Duncan, Derrick Jones, James B. Douglas, Gerard Parkes, Ken Pogue, R.H. Thomson, David Wayne

Overview:

In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.

Keywords:

ghost christmas great depression holiday new england