Film

An American Christmas Carol

1979 · 1h 38m · Drama · Family · TV Movie

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

IMDb

6.8

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.

Henry Winkler

Benedict Slade

David Wayne

Merrivale

Chris Wiggins

Nathaniel Brewster

R.H. Thomson

Thatcher

Ken Pogue

Jack Latham

Gerard Parkes

Jessup

Susan Hogan

Helen Brewster

Will Bermender

Orphan

Dorian Harewood

Matt Reeves

Tammy Bourne

Sarah Thatcher

Brett Matthew Davidson

Orphan

Christopher Crabb

Tim

Chris Cragg

Jonathan Thatcher

James B. Douglas

Sam Perkins

Arlene Duncan

Jennie Reeves

Linda Goranson

Doris Thatcher

• Eric TillDirector
• Charles DickensNovel
• Stanley ChaseProducer
• Jon SlanProducer
• Gary SmithExecutive Producer
• Edgar J. ScherickExecutive Producer
• Richard CiupkaDirector of Photography
• Ron WismanEditor

Release date

December 16, 1979

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

NR

Budget

$2,000,000

Genres

Drama, Family, TV Movie, Fantasy

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