An enjoyable reworking of Charles Dickens well spun yarn of redemption.
This retelling of the story is set in
Depression-era New England and is about a driven and
heartless bitter
old miser of a businessman, Benedict Slade
(Henry Winkler) who on Christmas Eve is visited by the ghost of his old partner
Jack Latham (Kenneth Pogue), who scares him with tales of hell and tells him
he will have further visitation to give him a
long-overdue attitude adjustment and show him the errors of his
ways.
They
appear in the guise of three of the people whose possessions he had seized that
day against unpaid loans.
The
first visitor was the ghost of Christmas past in the form of Book
Shop owner Mr Merrivale (David Wayne), the second visitor
was the ghost of Christmas Present in the form of the Orphanage head Jessup
(Gerard Parkes) and the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is farmer Matt
Reeves (Dorian Harewood).
Between
them they force him to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and as a
result he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man and discovers the true spirit of Christmas.
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