- Film Review
- Reviewed By David Parkinson
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2 out of 5
Despite the fact that it was produced by the ever-saccharine Hallmark company, there's something rather crude about this musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's story. Traditionalists and those fond of Ronald Neame's spirited Leslie Bricusse-scored Scrooge (1970) will wince at the sight of Jane Krakowski gyrating around Kelsey Grammer's bed as the Ghost of Christmas Past. The shoddiness of the special effects further detracts from any sense of ethereality that has survived the cast's game attempts at singing. There are plenty of familiar faces here, including Jason Alexander, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Geraldine Chaplin, but they're marooned by this poor festive fare.
Plot Summary
Musical adaptation of the classic Dickens seasonal tale. Kelsey Grammer stars as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who is shown the error of his ways when he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Ebenezer Scrooge
- Kelsey Grammer
- Emily
- Jennifer Love Hewitt
- Jacob Marley
- Jason Alexander
- Ghost of Christmas Future / Blind beggar woman
- Geraldine Chaplin
- Ghost of Christmas Present / Ticket seller
- Jesse L Martin
- Ghost of Christmas Past / Streetlamp lighter
- Jane Krakowski
- Chest-in-safe ghost
- Patrick David
- Young Ebenezer Scrooge
- Steven Miller
- Grace Smythe
- Emily Deamer
- Bob Cratchit
- Edward Gower
Crew
- Director
- Arthur Allan Seidelman
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