Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

My wife (Libertad Green) and I celebrated our wedding anniversary by watching this film together, alone, coincidentally - just the two of us, in an empty theatre. This is a shame, because this is one of the best Christmas films I've seen. As a fan of A Christmas Carol, with a collection of approximately sixty adaptations on VHS and DVD, I rank this adaptation among my favorites. It's a historical period piece, which provides what could have been sights and sounds similar to those which Charles Dickens experienced during his visit to the United States of America, and approximately two years later, when he felt inspired to write "A Christmas Carol." This film also enters the realm of imagination, as it recreates what could have been Charles Dickens' own nightmares and demons, as he struggled to be kind and generous, yet felt the natural inclination to become impatient with his financially burdensome parents, and with his servants and family who were constantly interrupting him while he was trying to write and publish A Christmas Carol in six weeks, on a constantly shrinking budget. Characters from A Christmas Carol are represented well enough to form a loose adaptation of the classic, while the film can stand alone as a biographical tale of this difficult period in Charles Dickens' life. Various items from Dickens' life and A Christmas Carol appear in this film, such as his fireplace with white and blue tiles, as mentioned in his novel. I look forward to receiving the BluRay so I can rewatch, rewind and pause it! I received my copies of the BluRay and DVD, and have literally lost track of how many times I've rewatched this film! It seems as if every time I watch it, I catch something I missed! This is going to be one of the adaptations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol that I watch every Christmas season.