Film

The Man Who Invented Christmas

2017 · 1h 45m · Drama · History · Comedy

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

IMDb

7.0

Rotten Tomatoes

79%

Metacritic

60

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.

Dan Stevens

Charles Dickens

Christopher Plummer

Scrooge

Jonathan Pryce

Mr. John Dickens

Justin Edwards

John Forster / Ghost of Christmas Present

Morfydd Clark

Kate Dickens

Donald Sumpter

Haddock / Ghost of Marley

Miles Jupp

Thackeray

Simon Callow

Leech

Miriam Margolyes

Mrs. Fisk

Ian McNeice

Chapman

Bill Paterson

Mr. Grimsby

John Henshaw

Butcher / Mr. Fezziwig

Annette Badland

Butcher's Wife / Mrs. Fezziwig

Katie McGuinness

Fanny Dickens / Mrs. Cratchit

Pearse Kearney

Henry Jr. / Tiny Tim

Ger Ryan

Mrs. Dickens

• Bharat NalluriDirector
• Susan CoyneWriter · Executive Producer
• Charles DickensNovel
• Niv FichmanProducer
• Vadim JeanProducer
• Robert MickelsonProducer
• Susan MullenProducer
• Ian SharplesProducer
• Wayne Marc GodfreyExecutive Producer
• Johanna HoganExecutive Producer

THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS | Official Trailer

Release date

October 12, 2017

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

PG

Budget

$17,000,000

Revenue

$8,100,000

Genres

Drama, History, Comedy, Family

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