Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold-hearted and greedy old miser whose only concern is money and profit and hates everything to do with Christmas. But he has a change of heart after three spirit visitations: Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future on Christmas Eve.
Director Ronald Neame's well-paced film captures the period beautifully, and the acting is superb, with Finney and Alec Guinness, as Marley's ghost, real standouts.
Even Scrooge's fingernails are dirty, and while I don't think that Dickens intended to equate greed with unwashed hands, he probably would not have objected.
Film4
May 24, 2003
Although rather hammy at times, Finney holds the screen throughout.
Lovely. Even better than the Henry Winkler version.
ReelViews
January 01, 2000
Unlike the great musicals, where you might find yourself humming a tune a few days later, with Scrooge, you'll be lucky if you remember the name of one of the songs a few hours later.
A roduction that suffers from its theatrical roots and its need to not only make its antihero see the error of his ways but go way overboard in making up for his past.