The Man Who Invented Christmas

How Charles Dickens wrote ’’A Christmas Carol’’ and created a tradition.

This is the back story about how Charles Dickens came to write his famous novel ’’A Christmas Carol.’’ This led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and other classic characters from the story. We follow Charles as he mixes real life inspirations with his vivid imagination to conjure up unforgettable characters and a timeless tale, forever changing the holiday season into the celebration we know today.

104 minutes.
Parental Guidance.
Biographical, Comedy, Drama, Family, On the art circuit.

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Credits

Cast	Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Callow, Miriam Margolyes, Ian McNeice, Morfydd Clark
Director	Bharat Nalluri
Screenplay	Susan Coyne, from the book by Les Standiford
Music	Mychael Danna
Cinematography	Ben Smithard
Editing	Stephen O'Connell, Jamie Pearson
Soundtrack	Available
SA distributor	Times Media Films
Made in	2017
Produced by	Mazur / Kaplan Company, The Mob Film Company, Parallel Films, Rhombus Media

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama, biopic
Language	Low impact, infrequent.
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	None
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
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USA MPAA rating

PG: Parental Guidance Suggested	Rated PG for thematic elements and some mild language
Runtime	104
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 8 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Frank Scheck No humbug with this Dickens delight.	10
ScreenIt Jim Judy I found it an enjoyable, entertaining and imaginative look at the general creative process as well as the creation of ’’A Christmas Carol’’ in particular.	12
Metacritic.com 31 critics	12
Rottentomatoes critics 109 critics	12
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The Man Who Invented Christmas adds holiday magic to the writing of A Christmas Carol, putting a sweetly revisionist spin on the story behind a classic yuletide tale.	16
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	13
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Heartfelt take on idea for Charles Dickens holiday classic.	15
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 9 users	12
Rottentomatoes users 2455 users	16
IMDB 463 Netizens	14
The Movie DB Community	10
Average .. 65%	13