Every Christmas eve, I used to listen to Patrick Stewart’s one man show audio tape of A Christmas Carol. I didn’t even know he had a movie version of it. Teresa was excited that she had seen something I hadn’t.
It was a very nice rendition of the classic. Nothing new, nothing terribly different. They showed Jacob Marley’s funeral, most versions skip that part (don’t they?)
I liked the ghost of Christmas Present. It would have been perfect had he been played by Brian Blessed. The ghost of Christmas Future was a little too overdone and Christmas Past was almost frail looking. Stewart may be an excellent actor but I kept expecting him to yell, “Get off my bridge!” He’ll be Captain Picard forever, and that just goes to show what a nerd I am.
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