Classic illustrations by John Leech in the 1843 edition of “A Christmas Carol”

The Man Who Invented Christmas is a movie  about a  Victorian era  writer named Charles Dickens who promised his publishers a book about Ghosts and Christmas just in time-

for Christmas.

Seriously. It had a Christmas Eve release date.

Impossible the publishers said! On top of it they didn’t exactly love the idea and I should probably mention he had a case of Writer’s block and the characters he created were Divas and that added to his struggle to bring his Christmas story to life.

His main character was the worst of all- he was a man with a dark heart and he told Charles this story was doomed to failure from the first word on the first page. Good thing ‘delete’ keys didn’t exist back then. That particular character may have ended up in the trash bin otherwise.

My favorite scenes in the movie were the scenes that showed Charles interacting with his characters it was a great window to the writer’s process  ( for some of us anyway )

So I can’t stress it enough- this movie is a spectacular film and if you watch it and then  chase it down with Alistar Sim’s version of Scrooge you will get a great dose of the Christmas Spirit and it may be the most non-alcoholic related fun you will have this season.

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