FX's A Christmas Carol Poster

FX's A Christmas Carol (2019)

R 12/19/2019 Drama, Fantasy 2h 53m
72%
User
Score
7.3/10

A Holiday classic reimagined.

Overview

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.

Steven Knight

Writer

Nick Murphy

Director

Top Billed Cast

Guy Pearce

Guy Pearce

Ebenezer Scrooge

Andy Serkis

Andy Serkis

Ghost of Christmas Past

Stephen Graham

Stephen Graham

Jacob Marley

Joe Alwyn

Joe Alwyn

Bob Cratchit

Vinette Robinson

Vinette Robinson

Mary Cratchit

Jason Flemyng

Jason Flemyng

Ghost of Christmas Future

Charlotte Riley

Charlotte Riley

Lottie / Ghost of Christmas Present

Johnny Harris

Johnny Harris

Franklin Scrooge

Kayvan Novak

Kayvan Novak

Ali Baba

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Media

FX’s A Christmas Carol | Inside Look: Redesigning A Christmas Carole | FX

FX’s A Christmas Carol | Inside Look: Redesigning A Christmas Carole | FX

FX’s A Christmas Carol | Inside Look: A Twisted Take | FX

FX’s A Christmas Carol | Inside Look: A Twisted Take | FX

FX’s A Christmas Carol | Inside Look: Adapting a Classic | FX

FX’s A Christmas Carol | Inside Look: Adapting a Classic | FX

FX’s A Christmas Carol | First Look: A Christmas Carol | FX

FX’s A Christmas Carol | First Look: A Christmas Carol | FX

BBC Official Trailer

BBC Official Trailer

FX's Official Trailer

FX's Official Trailer

A Christmas Carol: First Look Teaser - BBC

A Christmas Carol: First Look Teaser - BBC

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Reviews

A review by Stephen Campbell

Written on January 12, 2021

**_A darkly magical realist re–telling that definitely isn't for kids_**

>_If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart._

- Charles Dickens; _A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas_ (1843)

> _I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me._

- _A Christmas Carol_

> **Frank Cross:** _I get it. You're taking_ _me back in time to show me my mother and father, and I'm supposed to get all goosey and blubbery. Well, forget it, pal, you got the wrong guy._
>
> **Ghost of Christmas Past:** _That's exactly...

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A review by GenerationofSwine

Written on January 12, 2023

Nudity, the f-word, witches, child molestation, public urination, grave desiccation, hatred, prostitution, and it all ends on a nice note of spite... and I guess those changes were added in to make it politically correct?

I guess the old milktoast ghost story about redemption wasn't politically correct enough, so adding in the f-word, witches, child molestation, and prostitution... all somehow made it more politically correct.

In this version women all have magic powers, because women, and can use them to spite people, and it all ends on the uplifting note that there are more men to smite.

So, I guess the old version about redemption was somehow politically incorrect, so they had to change the ending to give spite the last word over redemption?

Ultimately, it's already a ghost ...

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