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| Year: | 2009 |
| Rating: | 7.0(11979) |
| Listed in: | Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Directed by: | Robert Zemeckis |
| Actors: | Jim Carrey Steve Valentine Daryl Sabara Sage Ryan Ryan Ochoa Amber Gainey Meade |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Robert Zemeckis | |
| Actors | |
| Jim Carrey | as Scrooge/Ghost of Christmas Past/Scrooge as a Young Boy/Scrooge |
| Steve Valentine | as Funerary Undertaker/Topper |
| Daryl Sabara | as Undertaker's Apprentice/Tattered Caroler/Beggar Boy/Peter Cratc |
| Sage Ryan | as Tattered Caroler |
| Ryan Ochoa | as Tattered Caroler/Beggar Boy/Young Cratchit Boy/Ignorance Boy/Yo |
| Ron Bottitta | as Tattered Caroler/Well-Dressed Caroler |
| Julian Holloway | as Fat Cook/Portly Gentleman #2/Business Man #3 |
| Gary Oldman | as Bob Cratchit/Marley/Tiny Tim |
| Colin Firth | as Fred |
| Cary Elwes | as Portly Gentleman #1/Dick Wilkins/Mad Fiddler/Guest #2/Business |
| Bob Hoskins | as Mr. Fezziwig/Old Joe |
| Paul Blackthorne | as Guest #3/Business Man #2 |
| Michael Hyland | as Guest #4 |
| Kerry Hoyt | as Adult Ignorance |
| Raymond Ochoa | as Caroline's Child |
| Callum Blue | as Caroline's Husband |
| Matthew Henerson | as Poulterer |
| Aaron Rapke | as Well-Dressed Caroler |
| John Todd | as Dancer |
| Actresses | |
| Amber Gainey Meade | as Tattered Caroler/Well-Dressed Caroler |
| Bobbi Page | as Tattered Caroler/Well-Dressed Caroler |
| Sammi Hanratty | as Beggar Boy/Young Cratchit Girl/Want Girl |
| Robin Wright | as Fan/Belle |
| Jacquie Barnbrook | as Mrs. Fezziwig/Fred's Sister-in-Law/Well-Dressed Caroler |
| Lesley Manville | as Mrs. Cratchit |
| Molly C. Quinn | as Belinda Cratchit |
| Fay Masterson | as Martha Cratchit/Guest #1/Caroline |
| Leslie Zemeckis | as Fred's Wife |
| Julene Renee | as Adult Want |
| Fionnula Flanagan | as Mrs. Dilber |
| Sonje Fortag | as Well-Dressed Caroler/Fred's Housemaid |
| Kelly Connolly | as Dancer |
| Jacquelyn Dowsett | as Dancer |
| Tarah Paige | as Dancer |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Budget: | USD 200,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 63,272,757 USD (15 November 2009) UK - 5,471,129 GBP (15 November 2009) |
| Plot: | During the Victorian era, stingy and cranky Ebenezer Scrooge, who hates Christmas, loses his partner Marley on Christmas Eve. For seven years, he runs his business exploiting his employee Bob Cratchit, and spends a bitter treatment to his family and acquaintances. However, that particular Christmas Eve he is visited by the doomed ghost of Marley who reveals that three spirits will visit him that night. The first one, the spirit of past Christmas, recalls his miserable youth; the spirit of the present Christmas shows him the poor situation of Bob's family; and the spirit of future Christmas shows his fate. The question is, can or is he willing to change? |
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Original Soundtracks
| "God Bless Us Everyone" |
Goofs
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DATE: Scenes showing London from the air incorporate numerous anachronistic features, including the Millennium Footbridge (opened 2000), the reconstructed Globe Theatre (opened 1997) and Southwark Bridge (opened 1921). FAIR: Marley tells Scrooge that one spirit will visit him at 1:00 am for the next three nights, but they all appear to him in the same night. This is repeated verbatim from the book, in which, following all the visits, Scrooge calls them "clever spirits" for doing it all in one night. FAIR: When the first spirit visits Scrooge, servants' bells are shown mysteriously jingling in his bedroom. Bells tell the servants which room of the mansion is calling for them, and weren't normally placed in the master's bedroom. They were usually installed in the kitchen, the pantry, or the servants' chambers. However, 'Charles Dickens (I)' explained that Scrooge's large house had been subdivided and let out as office space except for a "suite of rooms" that Scrooge kept to himself as living quarters. Dickens states that there was but one single disused bell in Scrooge's chambers - which "communicated for a forgotten purpose" with another chamber higher in the building. Dickens notes other bells in the house also began to ring. Disney chose to put all the bells in the room with Scrooge, which is inaccurate according to the Dickens work and contrary to the way servants' bells were normally placed. Nevertheless, this works on film as an oddity of the Scrooge character. CHAR: Bob Cratchit's job of "clerk" is referenced using both the UK and American pronunciations. (The English pronounce the letter combination "-er-" like "-ar-", so spoken words like "clerk" and "derby" in the UK would sound like "clark" and "darby" to an American.) DATE: In the scene where the Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge the two children, the boy says "Naff off!" to Scrooge. The expression was not coined until the 1960s and did not enter general use until the following decade when it was used as a substitute for swearing in a popular, early evening BBC comedy. DATE: Despite the film being set in the 19th century, scenes of London show old London Bridge, which burned down in 1666. FAIR: On Christmas morning, Scrooge buys the giant turkey and has it send to Camden Town, obviously as a surprise for Cratchit and his family. He did it anonymously, so when Cratchit comes to the office on 26 December, he is completely puzzled by Scrooge's new generosity. In our hi-tech, security-obsessed, suspicion-ridden world, it is hard to imagine that it was once possible to send an anonymous package without the recipient being terrified of it or suspecting it for a bomb. |
Quotes
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[from trailer] Ebenezer Scrooge: What do you want with me? Jacob Marley: You will be haunted by three spirits. Ebenezer Scrooge: I'd rather not. [from trailer] [to the Ghost of Christmas Past] Ebenezer Scrooge: Haunt me no longer! [from trailer] [soaring through the air past the moon] Ebenezer Scrooge: Oh, my! [From trailer] [upon meeting the Ghost of Christmas Future] Ebenezer Scrooge: Ghost of the Future, I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. [From trailer] Ebenezer Scrooge: I'm light as a feather! Merry as a schoolboy! [From trailer] [catching himself laughing like the Ghost of Christmas Present] Ebenezer Scrooge: I've heard that laugh before. [resumes laughing] Ebenezer Scrooge: If I could have my way, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled in his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart! Fred: A Merry Christmas to you, uncle! Ebenezer Scrooge: Bah! Humbug... What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough. Fred: What reason have you to be so dismal? You're rich enough. Ebenezer Scrooge: BAH! Humbug! Fred: Don't be cross, Uncle! Ebenezer Scrooge: What else can I be when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? 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! Fred: Uncle! Ebenezer Scrooge: Nephew! Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine. Fred: But you don't keep it! Ebenezer Scrooge: Let me leave it alone, then. Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you! Fred: There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round - apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it! [Cratchit applauds] Fred's Wife: [playing an animal guessing game] Is it a horse? Fred: No. Guest #3: A cow? Fred: No. Guest #4: A dog? Fred: No. Guest #5: An ass? Fred: Well... yes, and no... Fred's Wife: Oh, I got it, Fred! It's your Uncle Scrooge! Fred: Yes! |
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