''A Christmas Carol'' (a.k.a. ''A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's Ghostly Tale'') is a 2006 British-German computer-animated Christmas film. It is an adaptation of the 1843

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...

novella of the same name, and was produced by

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and BKN New Media, and was the first release in BKN's "BKN Classic Series" anthology of computer-animated direct-to-video films. The movie was first released in the United States theatrically in select cities by

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on November 6, 2006. The movie was released on

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in the United Kingdom on November 20, 2006 by BKN Home Entertainment, and a day later in the United States on November 21, 2006, by

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. This version casts the famous Dickens characters as anthropomorphic animals; Ebenezer Scrooge and his relatives are skunks,

Bob Cratchit Bob Cratchit is a fictional character in the Charles Dickens 1843 novel ''A Christmas Carol''. The abused, underpaid clerk of Ebenezer Scrooge (and possibly Jacob Marley, when he was alive), Cratchit has come to symbolize the poor working condi ...

and his family are rabbits, the ghost of

Jacob Marley Jacob Marley is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1843 novella ''A Christmas Carol'', a former business partner of the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who has been dead for seven years.Hawes, Donal''Who's Who in Dickens'' Routledge (1998), Goog ...

is a

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, the

Ghost of Christmas Past The Ghost of Christmas Past is a fictional character in Charles Dickens' 1843 novella ''A Christmas Carol''. The Ghost is one of three spirits which appear to miser Ebenezer Scrooge to offer him a chance of redemption. Following a visit from ...

, Present, and Future are a stork,

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, and

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. This version differs from the original novella in many ways; for example, the Ghost of Christmas Future actually speaks, while in most other versions he remains silent. Tiny Tim does not die in the possible future revealed to Scrooge, but instead becomes as miserly as he is. And

is said to be dead for two years, unlike the original in which he was dead for seven years, Scrooge's death is also different, as he drowned himself with his own greed by stacking his gold until it fell on him rather than dying of natural causes, and joins Jacob in the afterlife. Scrooge's childhood home is also shown.

Cast

Timothy Bentinck Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, Count Bentinck und Waldeck Limpurg, (born 1 June 1953), commonly known as Tim Bentinck, is an English actor and writer, known for his long-running role as David Archer in the BBC ...

as Narrator and Ebenezer Scrooge *

Jo Wyatt Jo Wyatt is an English actress. She is known for her voice as Tweak in '' The Octonauts'', Little Miss Helpful, Little Miss Naughty, Little Miss Scary and Little Miss Sunshine in '' The Mr. Men Show''. She also voiced Daisy Kribotnik in ''Lov ...

as Mrs. Cratchit *Brian Bowles as Bob Cratchit *

Keith Wickham Keith Wickham is a British voice actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is known for providing the voices of various characters in the children's television series ''Thomas & Friends'', and Polluto in ''Tommy Zoom''. Career Wickham voiced Change ...

as Collector for the Orphanage #1, Scrooge's Father, The Ghosts of Christmas Present and Future and

Teresa Gallagher Teresa Gallagher is an American-born British actress. Career Gallagher is known for her role as Ellen Smith in ''The Bill'', for her appearances on radio in ''No Commitments'', ''Salem's Lot'', and ''Memorials to the Missing''. She playe ...

, Tiny Tim and Fan *Adam Rhys Dee as Fred * Alan Marriott as Collector for the Orphanage #2 (uncredited)

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