Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
A Christmas Carol has generally received positive reviews.
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A Christmas Carol was released in 2009 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 84 reviews, giving A Christmas Carol (2009) an average rating of 65%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 75%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 62%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with A Christmas Carol than critics were.
With a score of 65%, A Christmas Carol is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2009, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2009 with similar scores include films like Law Abiding Citizen, The Time Traveler's Wife and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
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