This is the second time Bricusse has created a musical version of Dickens’s novella. The first was a live-action film with Albert Finney as Scrooge. One of the most memorable songs from that film, “Thank You Very Much,” is uncomfortably reprised here, again as a celebration of Scrooge’s death. God will bless us, everyone, if the inevitable next “A Christmas Carol” is better than this one.
Scrooge
Director: Stephen Donnelly
Imdb: 7.2
“Scrooge: A Christmas Carol” is as if someone made a bet that one of the most enduringly beloved works of literature—adapted with great success innumerable times featuring everyone from Mickey Mouse to the Muppets to Mister Magoo to classically trained British actors to Jim Carrey, to Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell just a couple of weeks ago—could be remade so poorly that it was close to unwatchable.
Director Stephen Donnelly Writer (based on the novella: “A Christmas Carol” by) Charles Dickens Writer (original writer: 1970 film “Scrooge”) Leslie Bricusse Writer Stephen Donnelly
Editor Graham Silcock Composer Jeremy Holland-Smith
