![]() He witnesses a group of businessmen discussing an unnamed colleague's death, with one saying he would only attend the funeral if lunch is provided. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, appearing as a dark shadow, takes Scrooge into the future. "Ignorance" and "Want" manifest themselves before Scrooge as two wretched children who grow into violent, insane individuals, leaving the spirit laughing as he withers away into a skeleton and vanishing. ![]() Arriving in a clock tower, the Ghost warns Scrooge the evils of "Ignorance" and "Want" before dying when the clock begins tolling midnight. The Ghost begins to age as they next visit Fred's Christmas party, where Fred insists that they raise a toast to Scrooge in spite of his cold demeanor. ![]() Scrooge and the Ghost visit Bob's house, learning that his family is content with their small dinner, and Scrooge takes pity on Bob's ill son Tiny Tim, whom the Ghost comments will die unless the course of events change. Scrooge meets the jolly Ghost of Christmas Present, who shows him the joys of Christmas. Overwhelmed, Scrooge extinguishes the spirit with his candle snuffer cap and is rocketed back to his house. Scrooge became an employee under the kind Fezziwig, and became engaged to a woman named Belle, who later left him as he developed an obsession with wealth. Scrooge eventually was brought home by his beloved little sister Fan, the long dead mother of Fred. Scrooge is visited by the candle-like Ghost of Christmas Past, who takes him back in time to his lonely childhood in a boarding school. Marley warns Scrooge to change his wicked ways or be condemned to the same fate, telling Scrooge that he will be haunted by three spirits over three nights, regardless of Scrooge’s suggestion for them to come at once. At home, Scrooge encounters the ghost of Jacob Marley, his seven-year dead business partner, bound in heavy chains. ![]() His loyal, underpaid employee, Bob Cratchit, asks Scrooge to give him a day off on Christmas Day, to which Scrooge reluctantly agrees. On Christmas Eve 1843, in London, stingy miser Ebenezer Scrooge hates the merriment of Christmas, declining his nephew Fred's invitation to an annual Christmas dinner party and refusing to make a donation to the poor to two charity workers. The film and Mars Needs Moms (2011) were the only ImageMovers Digital projects made, before the studio was shut down by the Walt Disney Company for unsatisfactory box office results. The film grossed $325 million on a $175–200 million budget and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its visuals, Alan Silvestri's musical score, and the performances of Carrey and Oldman, but criticized its dark tone and script. Its world premiere in London coincided with the switching-on of the annual Oxford Street and Regent Street Christmas lights. It is Disney's third adaptation of the novel, following Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) and The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992).Ī Christmas Carol was officially released in Disney Digital 3D, RealD 3D, and IMAX 3D on November 6, 2009. The film was animated through the process of motion capture, a technique used in ImageMovers' previous animated films including The Polar Express (2004), Monster House (2006), and Beowulf (2007), and stars the voices of Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn and Cary Elwes. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Zemeckis' ImageMovers Digital, and released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is based on Charles Dickens's 1843 novel A Christmas Carol. ![]() Disney's A Christmas Carol (or simply A Christmas Carol) is a 2009 American animated Christmas dark fantasy film produced, written for the screen and directed by Robert Zemeckis. ![]()
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