Review – The Man Who Invented Christmas

I’ve long thought of Charles Dickens as the Stephen King of the 19th century, especially when he spun ghost stories such as A Christmas Carol. Thus as often as I’ve sat through the latter author’s considerable supply of protagonists with writer’s block, experiencing that as a primary plot factor here wasn’t exactly welcome. Despite being considerably oversold by its own title, this is an amusing little fictionalization of the creation of Dickens’s holiday classic. But with this budget and cast – particularly Christopher Plummer as Scrooge in the author’s imagination – a better movie might have been made. Mildly amusing