# A Christmas Carol (2009)

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**Runtime**: 96 min
**Genres**: Animation, Fantasy, Drama, Family
**Directed by**: Robert Zemeckis
**Written by**: Robert Zemeckis
**Starring**: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, Bob Hoskins

> *Christmas comes but once a year, but for one man, that's once too often.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Robert Zemeckis here tries to improve on perfection. Dickens's classic gets the full uncanny-valley treatment as Scrooge receives some unwelcome Christmas Eve visitors. It's not *quite* a motion-capture miracle, but it's certainly something.

**Mood tags**: cozy, tender, uplifting

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 6.8/10 (136559 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 52% · Metacritic 55/100

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