Disney’s A Christmas Carol (2009), with Jim Carrey
Robert Zemeckis’s motion-capture version, with Jim Carrey as Scrooge and all three ghosts.
Keep Dickens’s dialogue, and build everything around it in motion capture.
You want the book’s words in a big animated film, and you don’t mind a fright.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: much of the original dialogue, which reviewers noticed.
Changes: the look, into motion-capture animation, released in 3D. Gary Oldman plays Bob Cratchit and Marley.
Whose story is it?
Scrooge’s, and Carrey’s: he plays the ghosts too.
How much time does it ask?
A feature, 1 hour 36 minutes. Walt Disney Pictures.
Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman. Written and directed by Robert Zemeckis.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Find where it’s streaming — JustWatch
Common questions
Who does Jim Carrey play in A Christmas Carol (2009)?
Scrooge and all three ghosts: Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come. Gary Oldman plays Bob Cratchit and Marley.
More Christmas Carols: A Christmas Carol (MGM, 1938) · Scrooge (1951), with Alastair Sim · A Christmas Carol (1984), with George C. Scott