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An American Christmas Carol

Charles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film
Dec 16, 1979 · 1h 38m
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Drama
Family
TV Movie
Fantasy

PLOT

In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.

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CAST

Henry Winkler
Benedict Slade
David Wayne
Merrivale
Chris Wiggins
Nathaniel Brewster
R.H. Thomson
Thatcher
Ken Pogue
Jack Latham
Gerard Parkes
Jessup
Susan Hogan
Helen Brewster
Will Bermender
Orphan
Directed by Eric Till

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$2,000,000
Revenue
—
Production
Edgar J. Scherick Associates, Jon Slan Productions, Smith-Hemion Productions
Country
CA, US

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