A Christmas Carol (2006 film)

2006 animated film by Ric Machin

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A Christmas Carol

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Directed by| Ric Machin
Written by| Sean Catherine Derek
Based on| A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Produced by| Rick Ungar
Allen Bohbot
Starring| Tim Bentick
Keith Wickham
Alan Marriott (uncredited)
Brian Bowles
Jo Wyatt
Teresa Gallagher
Adam Rhys Dee
Narrated by| Tim Bentick
Edited by| Sanjiv Gill
Prashant Khapre
Music by| Allen Bohbot

Production
companies

BKN International
BKN New Media

Distributed by| BKN Home Entertainment

Release dates

* November 6, 2006 (2006-11-06) (United States, theatrical)
* November 20, 2006 (2006-11-20) (United Kingdom)

Running time

| 48 minutes
Countries| United Kingdom
Germany
Language| English

A Christmas Carol (a.k.a. A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's Ghostly Tale) is a 2006 animated Christmas film. It is an adaptation of the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol, and was produced by BKN International and BKN New Media,[1] and was the first release in BKN's "BKN Classic Series" anthology of animated direct-to-video films.

The film was first released in the United States theatrically in select cities by Kidtoon Films on November 6, 2006. It was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on November 20, by BKN Home Entertainment, and a day later in the United States on November 21, by Genius Products in the same year.

This version casts the famous Dickens characters as anthropomorphic animals: Ebenezer Scrooge and his relatives are skunks, Bob Cratchit and his family are rabbits, the ghost of Jacob Marley is a cricket, the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future are a stork, kangaroo, and walrus. This version differs from the original novella in many ways; for example, the Ghost of Christmas Future actually speaks, while in most versions he remains silent. Tiny Tim does not die in the possible future revealed to Scrooge, but instead becomes as miserly as he is. Jacob Marley is said to have been dead for two years, unlike the original in which he was dead for seven years. Scrooge's death is also different, as he drowned due to his own greed by stacking his gold until it fell on him rather than dying of natural causes and joins Marley in the afterlife. Scrooge's childhood home is also shown.

## Cast

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* Timothy Bentinck as Narrator and Ebenezer Scrooge
* Jo Wyatt as Mrs. Cratchit
* Brian Bowles as Bob Cratchit
* Keith Wickham as Collector for the Orphanage #1, Scrooge's Father, The Ghosts of Christmas Present and Future and Jacob Marley
* Teresa Gallagher as Ghost of Christmas Past, Tiny Tim and Fan
* Adam Rhys Dee as Fred
* Alan Marriott as Collector for the Orphanage #2 (uncredited)

## See also

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* List of Christmas films
* List of ghost films
* List of American films of 2006
* Adaptations of A Christmas Carol
* List of animated feature-length films

## References

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1. ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 51\. ISBN 9781476672939.

## External links

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* A Christmas Carol at AllMovie
* A Christmas Carol at Big Cartoon Database

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Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol

Characters|

* Ebenezer Scrooge
* Bob Cratchit
* Mr. Fezziwig
* Tiny Tim
* Jacob Marley
* Ghost of Christmas Past
* Ghost of Christmas Present
* Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

Films|

* Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost (1901)
* A Christmas Carol (1908)
* A Christmas Carol (1910)
* Scrooge (1913)
* The Right to Be Happy (1916)
* Scrooge (1935)
* A Christmas Carol (1938)
* Scrooge (1951)
* It's Never Too Late (1953)
* A Christmas Carol (1960)
* Scrooge (1970)
* A Christmas Carol (1971)
* An American Christmas Carol (1979)
* Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)
* Scrooged (1988)
* The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
* A Christmas Carol (1997)
* Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001)
* A Carol Christmas (2003)
* Springtime with Roo (2004)
* Chasing Christmas (2005)
* A Christmas Carol (2006)
* An American Carol (2008)
* Barbie in a Christmas Carol (2008)
* Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
* A Christmas Carol (2009)
* The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol (2011)
* Scrooge & Marley (2012)
* A Christmas Carol (2020)
* Spirited (2022)
* Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022)

Television|

* The Christmas Carol (1949)
* A Christmas Carol (1954)
* Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962)
* Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
* A Special Sesame Street Christmas (1978)
* The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)
* Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (1979)
* Rich Little's Christmas Carol (1979)
* A Christmas Carol (1982)
* A Christmas Carol (1984)
* Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)
* A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994)
* Ebbie (1995)
* Ms. Scrooge (1997)
* An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998)
* Ebenezer (1998)
* A Christmas Carol (1999)
* A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000)
* A Christmas Carol (2000)
* A Christmas Carol (2004)
* An Easter Carol (2004)
* Karroll's Christmas (2004)
* Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006)
* Nan's Christmas Carol (2009)
* "A Christmas Carol" (Doctor Who) (2010)
* It's Christmas, Carol! (2012)
* Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale (2013)
* A Hearth's Warming Tail (2016)
* A Christmas Carol (2019)

Musicals|

* Scrooge (1992)
* A Christmas Carol (1994)
* Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge (2002)

Plays|

* A Christmas Carol; or, Past, Present, and Future (1844)
* A Christmas Carol (1988)
* Fellow Passengers (2004)
* A Klingon Christmas Carol (2007)
* A Christmas Carol (2017)
* A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story (2021)

Soundtracks|

* A Christmas Carol (2009)
* Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2011)

Other|

* Adaptations of A Christmas Carol
* Batman: Noël (comic)
* "Green Chri$tma$" (single)
* The Misadventures of the Wholesome Twins (2005 musical)
* The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017 film)
* Ebenezer and the Invisible World (video game)

Related|

* John Leech (illustrator)
* List of Christmas films

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