A Christmas Carol (2009)

This is an imperfect-but-creditable movie. Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carey) is a wealthy, but stingy businessman who feels contempt for everyone around him. When his business partner dies, he takes the coins off the dead man’s eyes to pay for the burial. On Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of his late partner who tells him that if he does not change, he will have a tortuous afterlife, and alerts him that three other ghosts will be appearing, to remind him of how he has led his life and where it could end up.

The film seems to have been made mainly to take advantage of the 3-D effects. It is based on the 1843 novella by Charles Dickens. The film was produced through the process of performance capture. Disney had previously released Mickey's Christmas Carol in 1983 and Muppet Christmas Carol in 1992. This was Jim Carrey’s first role in a Disney film. The poster image of Scrooge clinging to the candle extinguisher is similar to the poster for the 1943 film Münchhausen, which shows Albers clinging to a cannonball.