A Christmas Carol (2006 film)

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A Christmas Carol
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Directed byRic Machin
Written bySean Catherine Derek
Based on A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Produced by Rick Ungar
Allen Bohbot
StarringTim Bentick
Keith Wickham
Alan Marriott (uncredited)
Brian Bowles
Jo Wyatt
Teresa Gallagher
Adam Rhys Dee
Narrated byTim Bentick
Edited bySanjiv Gill
Prashant Khapre
Music byAllen Bohbot
Production
companies
Distributed by BKN Home Entertainment
Release dates
November 6, 2006 (2006-11-06) (United States, theatrical)
November 20, 2006 (2006-11-20) (United Kingdom)
Running time
48 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom Germany
LanguageEnglish

A Christmas Carol (a.k.a. A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's Ghostly Tale) is a 2006 British-German computer-animated Christmas film. It is an adaptation of the 1843 Charles Dickens novella of the same name, and was produced by BKN International and BKN New Media, [1] and was the first release in BKN's "BKN Classic Series" anthology of computer-animated direct-to-video films.

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The film was first released in the United States theatrically in select cities by Kidtoon Films on November 6, 2006. It was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on November 20, 2006, by BKN Home Entertainment, and a day later in the United States on November 21, 2006, by Genius Products.

This version casts the famous Dickens characters as anthropomorphic animals; Ebenezer Scrooge and his relatives are skunks, Bob Cratchit and his family are rabbits, the ghost of Jacob Marley is a cricket, the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future are a stork, kangaroo, and walrus. This version differs from the original novella in many ways; for example, the Ghost of Christmas Future actually speaks, while in most versions he remains silent. Tiny Tim does not die in the possible future revealed to Scrooge, but instead becomes as miserly as he is.Jacob Marley is said to have been dead for two years, unlike the original in which he was dead for seven years, Scrooge's death is also different, as he drowned due to his own greed by stacking his gold until it fell on him rather than dying of natural causes and joins Marley in the afterlife. Scrooge's childhood home is also shown.

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