An enjoyable and
humorous reworking of Charles Dickens well spun yarn of redemption.
This retelling of the
story is of an ego-maniacal driven and heartless TV talk show host, Carol
Cartman (Tori Spelling) who is determined to destroy the festive fun in the
studio.
However on Christmas
Eve she is visited by the ghost of her Aunt Marla (Dinah Manoff).
The story unfolds much
as you might expect from then on but the late Gary Coleman is a quite excellent
Ghost of Christmas Past and William Shatner steals the show as the Ghost of
Christmas Present.
The use of the Star
Trek tele-porter effect when he "moved" Carol from one location to
another was quite inspired.
There are also very
credible performances from Nina Siemaszko as ill-used assistant Roberta and
Michael Landes as Roberta’s love interest Jimmy.
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