The Man Who Invented Christmas

(2017)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 881 votes

Genres: Drama, History, Comedy, Family

Year: 2017

Runtime: 104 мин

Country: Ireland, Canada

Director: Bharat Nalluri

Cast: Дэн Стивенс, Кристофер Пламмер, Джонатан Прайс, Джастин Эдвардс, Морвед Кларк, Дональд Самптер, Miles Jupp, Simon Callow, Мириам Маргулис, Иэн Макнис

Plot

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

In 1843, celebrated British novelist Charles Dickens is at a low point in his career with three flops behind him and family expenses piling up at home. Determined to recover, Dickens decides to write a Christmas story and self-publish it in less than two months. As Dickens labors writing on such short notice, his estranged father and mother come to bunk with him. Still haunted by painful memories of his father ruining his childhood by his financial irresponsibility, Dickens develops a seemingly-unsolvable writer's block. Dickens must face his personal demons epitomized through his characters, especially in his imagined conversations with Ebenezer Scrooge. With a looming deadline, Dickens struggles for inspiration against his frustrations and his characters' opinions in a literary challenge creating a classic tale that would define the essential soul of modern Christmas.