A Christmas Carol 2009

A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey), who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one night. Mr. Scrooge is a financier/money-changer who has devoted his life to the accumulation of wealth.

He holds anything other than money in contempt, including friendship, love and the Christmas season. But an encounter with the ghostly figure of Jacob Marley (Gary Oldman) sets the stage for a mysterious and magical encounter with three phantasmic beings to help him realize the true magic of Christmas itself.

"A Christmas Carol," a multi-sensory thrill ride re-envisioned by Academy Award - winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, captures the fantastical essence of the classic Dickens tale in a groundbreaking 3-D motion picture event. Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk (Gary Oldman) and his cheery nephew (Colin Firth).

But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.

A Christmas Carol

• Jim Carrey's first project with Walt Disney Pictures.
• Robert Zemeckis' first project with the Walt Disney Company since Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
• This is the Disney Company's third involvement with an adaption of A Christmas Carol, the first being Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) and the other, The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
• The first Disney animated movie to release in IMAX 3D.
• Disney's previous version of A Christmas Carol, The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), starred Michael Caine as Scrooge. Caine, Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman have all also appeared in the Batman films.
• Robert Zemeckis has stated previously that A Christmas Carol is one of his favorite stories dealing with time travel.
• Jim Carrey has described the film as "a classical version of A Christmas Carol There are a lot of vocal things, a lot of physical things, I have to do. Not to mention doing the accents properly, the English, Irish accents. I want it to fly in the UK. I want it to be good and I want them to go, 'Yeah, that's for real.' We were very true to the book. It's beautiful. It's an incredible film."