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Miser Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas and reforms his heartless and money-grubbing ways after being visited on Christmas Eve by four ghosts.

Slade, the president of a finance company, has chosen the day before Christmas to mercilessly hound the townsfolk for their loan payments and repossess their goods. That evening, alone in his apartment, Slade receives three ghostly visitors who take him on an enlightening journey through time-- to Christmas past, present and future.

Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. 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. Includes featurettes, and deleted scenes.

"Frank Cross has made the meteoric rise from the depths of the mailroom to TV network president. He is mean, nasty, uncaring, unforgiving, and has a sadistic sense of humor which are perfect qualities for a modern-day Scrooge. Before the night is over, he'll be visited by a maniacal New York cab driver from the past, a present-day fairy who's into pratfalls, and finally, a ghoulish, seven-foot headless messenger from the future in this modern version...

The once mean and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge was forever changed by his ghostly Christmas Eve encounter. Now one year later, Scrooge receives another posthumous visit from his old business partner. It seems Jacob Marley is not yet finished with Mister Scrooge. Sent on a journey 170 years into the future, Scrooge encounters a world even colder an greedier than his own, a world that includes a young cutthroat businessman named Timothy Cratchit VI.

A musical interpretation of the play A Christmas carol, by Charles Dickens. Therein, a misanthropic miser learns the true meaning of Christmas.

"Ebenezer Scrooge is a miser whose sole pursuit of financial success has left him a bitter and lonely old man. A Christmas Eve visit from the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future teaches him to open his heart to the spirit of Christmas." --

"In this adaptation of Charles Dickens's tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve when he is visited by ghosts from Christmases past, present and future. A classic that's as integral a part of Christmas as lighted trees and mistletoe." --

Scrooge is a cynical old man whose greatest concern is money. On Christmas Eve, he is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley, his former business partner, who arranges for Scrooge to be visited by three spirits. Begins with a sequence set in 1857, the site of a live reading by the renowned Dickens. As he begins his story a woman screams because she has seen a mouse and Dickens points out that his story begins with a mouse. Dickens explains that the...