The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)

10/12/2017 (IE) • 1h 45m

Drama, History, Comedy, Family

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

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Dan Stevens

Charles Dickens

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


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$17,000,000.00

Revenue

$8,100,000.00

Keywords

london, england

husband wife relationship

based on novel or book

holiday

disabled child

victorian england

debt

literary agent

poverty

child labor

novelist

publisher

housemaid

christmas

19th century

self publishing

slum dwellers

father son relationship

book writing

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