Christmas Carol: The Movie Christmas Carol: The Movie Christmas Carol: The Movie is a 2001 British live action/animated film based on Charles Dickens's classic novella. Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, the film features the voices of numerous actors including Simon Callow, Kate Winslet (who also sang the film's theme "What If"), Kate's sister Beth Winslet, and Nicolas Cage. This version differs from others, in that Scrooge is given another chance with the love of his life, Belle, who ended their engagement in their youth after he was corrupted by greed; they later meet again after the three spirits have reformed Scrooge and he is
Scrooge & Marley (2012 film) pre-programmed." Countess Gregula of a blogging site ChicagoNow deemed the story "faithful to the Dickens classic, but with a gay-friendly twist." Actor Bruce Vilanch, who portrayed Fezziwig, said, "Fezziwig is the end of that party that was going on in the gay community in the '70s, that was ended by the AIDS epidemic." Names of songwriters are taken from the ending credits. Scrooge & Marley (2012 film) Scrooge & Marley is 2012 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", which is retold from a gay perspective, co-directed by Richard Knight Jr. and Peter Neville, and co-written by Knight, Timothy