An American Christmas Carol
6.8
“Charles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film”
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.
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Henry Winkler
Benedict Slade
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Jack Latham
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Dorian Harewood
Matt Reeves
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Brett Matthew Davidson
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Eric Till Director · Charles Dickens Author Jerome Coopersmith Author
Budget $2M · United States release December 16, 1979 · Produced in Canada, United States
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Budget
$2,000,000
Production
Edgar J. Scherick Associates
Production
Jon Slan Productions
Production
Smith-Hemion Productions
Production
Canada · United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · December 16, 1979
TV · ABC
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