The Man Who Invented Christmas
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Short description
In 1843 London, Charles Dickens is a celebrated author whose recent books have not done well, leaving his career and his household finances in doubt. Abandoned by his publishers, he decides to write and release a story at his own expense. Searching for inspiration, he draws on memories of his own childhood and on his imagination, and gradually an elderly, solitary, embittered figure takes shape: Ebenezer Scrooge. Around Scrooge grow Tiny Tim and the other characters of the tale that becomes A Christmas Carol, a work that reshapes how Christmas is celebrated.
The film blends Dickens's real life with the fictional world he is creating, moving between the writer's family and his dealings with those around him, and the figures who come to life in his mind. Dan Stevens plays Dickens, with Christopher Plummer as Scrooge, Jonathan Pryce as Dickens's father John, Morfydd Clark as his wife Kate, and Justin Edwards as his friend and adviser John Forster, who also appears as the Ghost of Christmas Present. Bharat Nalluri directed from a screenplay by Susan Coyne.
It is the fourth feature Nalluri directed, following Spooks: The Greater Good. Released in 2017 and running 105 minutes, it earned about 8 million dollars worldwide against a budget of 17 million. On IMDb it holds 7 out of 10 from roughly 22,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.8 from 886, while critics gave it 6.4 from 170 reviews, so audiences rated it somewhat more warmly than reviewers did.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film was shot primarily in Ireland. In some cases, sets created for the television series "Grimm" (2014-2016), which was also set in Victorian England, were used.
- At 87 years old, Christopher Plummer became the oldest actor to play Scrooge.
- Dickens’ wife is reading “Roughing It In The Wild” by Canadian writer of British origin Susanna Moodie in bed. It was first published in London in 1852, not in 1843 as indicated in the film.
- Charles Dickens' family did indeed have a pet raven. The bird unexpectedly died while the family was away. Dickens once told this story to Edgar Allan Poe, who later wrote the poem “The Raven.”
- Dickens takes the novel “The Bloody Banquet” from the “Varney the Vampire” series from his maid. It is a Gothic horror story written between 1845 and 1846 by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest. The novel was written as a series of weekly, inexpensive pamphlets known at the time as “penny dreadfuls.”
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