
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
How Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” and created a tradition.
104 min
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
- Release date
- November 22, 2018
- Country of origin
- Canada, Ireland
- Music
- Mychael Danna
- Budget
- $17,000,000
- Box office
- $8,100,000
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Trailer
Soundtrack
- Curtain Upinstrumental1:37
- Three Flops Laterinstrumental1:23
- Do the Needfulinstrumental1:23
- Damned Expensive Being a Gentlemaninstrumental0:50
- Charlie and the Necromancerinstrumental1:18
- Are There No Workhouses?instrumental1:15
- Humbuginstrumental1:41
- Only 6 Weeksinstrumental0:55
- You Wish to Borrow More?instrumental1:06
- Scrooge Appearsinstrumental1:52
- Marleyinstrumental2:44
- Lighten the Burden of Anotherinstrumental0:43
Cast
- Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens
- Christopher Plummer as Scrooge
- Jonathan Pryce as Mr. John Dickens
- Justin Edwards as John Forster
- Morfydd Clark as Kate Dickens
- Donald Sumpter as Haddock / Ghost of Marley
- Miles Jupp as Thackeray
- Simon Callow as Leech
- Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Fisk
- Ian McNeice as Chapman
- Bill Paterson as Mr. Grimsby
- John Henshaw as Butcher / Mr. Fezziwig
- Annette Badland as Butcher's Wife / Mrs. Fezziwig
- Katie McGuinness as Fanny Dickens / Mrs. Cratchit
- Ger Ryan as Mrs. Dickens
- Marcus Lamb as Rev. Henry Burnett / Mr. Cratchit
- Cosimo Fusco as Signor Mazzini
- Patrick Joseph Byrnes as Stage Manager
- David McSavage as Hall
- Mark Schrier as Presenter
- Justin Edwards as Ghost of Christmas Present
- Jasper Hughes Cotter as Walter Dickens
- James Heffernan as Charley Dickens
- Aleah Lennon as Mamie Dickens
Crew
- Bharat Nalluri · Director
- Susan Coyne · Writer
- Les Standiford · Writer
- Charles Dickens · Writer
- Niv Fichman · Producer
- Vadim Jean · Producer
- Robert Mickelson · Producer
- Susan Mullen · Producer
- Mychael Danna · Composer
- Ben Smithard · Cinematographer
- Stephen O'Connell · Editor
- Jamie Pearson · Editor
- Amy Hubbard · Casting director
- Paki Smith · Production designer