[1] It was directed by David Jones and stars Patrick Stewart as Ebenezer Scrooge and Richard E. Grant as Bob Cratchit.

[2] Moneylender Ebenezer Scrooge buries his friend and business partner Jacob Marley before returning to work at his counting house.

Scrooge declines his nephew Fred Bowley's invitation to join him for Christmas dinner, dismisses two gentlemen collecting charitable donations and frightens away a carol singer by brandishing a ruler.

The ghost shows prisoners celebrating the carols before suddenly aging, telling Scrooge his life is ending and warning him to beware of "Ignorance" and "Want", who manifest themselves as two wretched children.

At the stock exchange, Scrooge sees business colleagues discuss a man's death and how they just attend his funeral if lunch is provided.

When asked to see tenderness connected with a death, the Ghost transports Scrooge to Cratchit's house, where Tiny Tim has died and the Crachits are in mourning.

Scrooge anonymously sends Bob's family a large turkey for Christmas dinner and ventures out among London's citizens to spread cheer, even singing carols in church.

The next day, Scrooge plays a prank on Bob, pretending to be about to scold him for lateness, but instead giving him a raise and offering to assist his family.

The film was produced after Patrick Stewart performed a series of successful one-man shows of A Christmas Carol on Broadway and in London.

[8] In 2019, Robert Keeling of Den of Geek called it a “steadfastly faithful adaptation, but it lacks any warmth, and while it does the darker stuff quite well, it doesn’t really exude Christmas spirit.