"The Man Who Invented Christmas"

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Many of you are probably saying, "Christmas, it's almost St. Patrick's Day" or "Didn't we see this in theaters" Well, yes, and yes. However I'm one for doing the ones we may have missed and this had so many hits overshadowing this at the time it was in theaters that I thought it was worth giving a few words.

Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens from the live action "Beauty and the Beast) finds after the success of his book "Oliver Twist" to be in a slump. After three failures in the last year and a half, Charles is becoming financially strained and is in need of a hit that will bring his name back as the acclaimed novelist he once was. That's when inspiration strikes him to write a story taking place at Christmastime and he only has less than two months to complete it if he wants it fully published by Christmas. During this time he learns that his wife Kate (Morfydd Clark) is pregnant and that his father John (Jonathan Pryce) who Charles sees as immature and fiscally irresponsible and his mother Elizabeth (Ger Ryan) shows up to stay with his family.
As the pieces start to come together to form the story and characters, he becomes immersed in his imagination to where he can see the character of Scrooge (Christopher Plummer) along with the other cast of characters almost vividly as he bounces ideas back and forth through them. It comes to the point where fantasy and reality almost blur and that Charles comes to find that Ebenezer may be in fact a reflection of himself.

Coming from the point of a writer it was easy to relate to Charles who's creative process can sometimes be an emotional process and how the characters can become as close as being real to you, even like family. Showing the emotional journey Charles takes and how the story makes him a better man for it is almost like reliving his novel through a fresh set of eyes. A five G.M.Star performance of a film that can takes you through the life and imagination of one of the greatest novelist without missing a beat is worth the watch.

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