A Christmas Carol, 1999, starring Patrick Stewart, has left me disappointed. I love the story, and I thought Stewart could make a good Scrooge, but his performance had not touched me at all. The movie followed the book closely enough.
Scrooge, a lonely, hard-hearted businessman, hates
Christmas because he never saw any good in it. As everyone is getting ready to celebrate, Scrooge is more mean-spirited than ever.
He slights his clerk and refuses his nephew’s invitation to the Christmas dinner, determined to ignore Christmas altogether yet again, as he has done ...