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...interior forces that shaped him. Zemeckis stages the familiar episodes briskly, with more jaunty showbiz than we're used to he uses Carrey and Gary Oldman in multiple roles yet without sacrificing any emotion. The spirits have a spooky majesty...

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...as well as the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. The film, also featuring Robin Wright Penn and Gary Oldman, is directed by Oscar-winner Robert Zemeckis. Zemeckis, writer and co-director of the phenomenally successful 1985...

In this article: Jim Carrey, Ebenezer Scrooge, Robert Zemeckis, Bruce Almighty, Time travel, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Capitalism, and God

Why Zemeckis would prefer creepy doll-like simulations of Gary Oldman (Bob Cratchit), Colin Firth (Fred) and Robin Wright Penn (Belle) -- not to mention star Jim Carrey (Scrooge and others) -- to the real things is a head-scratcher. If it...

In this article: Ebenezer Scrooge, Jim Carrey, Robert Zemeckis, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Alastair Sim, E mail, Charles Dickens, U.S., and London

...to it," Zemeckis says. Though much of 19th-century London is realistically gritty, Carrey's Scrooge has a face like a crescent moon, and his meek clerk, Bob Cratchit (played by Gary Oldman), is small and owlish. Inspiration also was taken...

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...clowning and a motor-mouth barrage of semi-crude humor. Jim Carrey as Scrooge, with Tiny Tim (voiced by Gary Oldman) in Robert Zemeckis's performance-capture film. Holiday Movies: Dickens's Victorian London Goes Digital (November...

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...he seems perfectly charming, if a touch nervous. We talk about A Christmas Carol, which, aside from Carrey, has a mostly British cast including Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Bob Hoskins. The film marks Hollywood's umpteenth "go" at the...

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Had Zemeckis seen fit to hire a talent on par with Oldman (just great), Firth, or Bob Hoskins (who is excellent as initial Scrooge employer Fezziwig), we'd have something that is both technologically spectacular and emotionally sound. As...

In this article: Ebenezer Scrooge, Jim Carrey, A Christmas Carol, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Cratchit, Colin Firth, London, Bob Hoskins, and Robin Wright Penn

...spin on Charles Dickens' oft-told tale of redemption. Jim Carrey's misanthropic Scrooge learns life lessons from Tiny Tim and kindly wage-slave Bob Cratchit (both voiced by Gary Oldman). Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins and Robin Wright Penn...

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...as a potato beginning to sprout.) While the filmmaker taps the considerable talents of Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins and Robin Wright Penn, the end result is meltdown at Madame Tussaud's. </p><p>This, despite Zemeckis' keen...

In this article: Robert Zemeckis, Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Jim Carrey, London, Robin Wright Penn, Swoops, and Potato