His wife, Catherine Dickens, tearfully confronts Charles over his recklessness and instability, and admits that she believes that he puts his work before his own family. The next morning, he regrets dismissing Tara, but is unable to find and rehire her. Charles' relationship with his family and friends increasingly strains as he struggles with Scrooge's ending and his debts mount, until he sends both his parents and Tara out of the house in a fit of rage.
He rejects the notion but it continues to haunt him in the form of writer's block. However, Charles is unable to believe that a man as cruel and cold as Scrooge could change. Tara believes that people can change and suggests instead that Scrooge saves Tiny Tim. When Charles shows Tara the next draft, she is distraught that Scrooge would not save Tiny Tim.
While writing his book, Charles is greeted by the unannounced arrival of his eccentric father, John Dickens ( Jonathan Pryce), whom Charles views as immature and fiscally irresponsible. Dickens is helped by one of his servants, Tara (Anna Murphy), a literate Irish nursemaid to his children, whom he discusses story elements with. Seeing inspiration around London, most notably a rich man's funeral that is largely unattended and a mean-spirited old man who gives him the catchphrase "Humbug" and inspiration of a new character, he begins writing A Christmas Carol, due in six weeks in order to be published by Christmas, despite his friends and publishers telling him that the book will also be a failure as Christmas (at the time) was considered irrelevant and few people celebrated it.Īs Charles develops the story, he interacts with the characters that manifest in front of him, most notably Ebenezer Scrooge ( Christopher Plummer). Rejected by his publishers, he sets out to write a new book, and publish it himself, to restore his finances. In 1843, four years after the success of Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens ( Dan Stevens) is suffering financial hardship from the failure of his last three books. It received generally positive reviews from critics. It was released by Bleecker Street in the United States on 22 November 2017, and by Thunderbird Releasing in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2017. The film was produced by Parallel Film and Rhombus Media. Based on the 2008 book of the same name about Charles Dickens by Les Standiford, the joint Canadian and Irish production stars Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, and Jonathan Pryce, and follows Dickens (Stevens) as he conceives and writes his 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. The Man Who Invented Christmas is a 2017 Christmas biographical comedy-drama film directed by Bharat Nalluri and written by Susan Coyne.
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