&quot;Tiny Tim&quot; Cratchit

Le Drôle de Noël de Scrooge (2009)

, 1h36
Réalisé par Robert Zemeckis
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Science-fiction, Fantastique, Comédie, Comédie dramatique, Fantasy, Aventure, Horreur, Animation
Thèmes Noël, Voyage dans le temps, Fantômes, Films pour enfants
Acteurs Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Cary Elwes, Steve Valentine, Sammi Hanratty, Colin Firth
Note68%

En 1843, la veille de Noël, Ebenezer Scrooge, un vieil usurier misérable d'une maison de comptage londonienne, ne partage pas la joie de Noël. Il décline l'invitation de son joyeux neveu Fred Holywell à un dîner de Noël, et rejette l'offre de deux messieurs de collecter de l'argent pour la charité. Son fidèle employé Bob Cratchit demande à Scrooge de lui permettre de prendre un jour de congé le jour de Noël pour passer du temps avec sa famille, ce à quoi Scrooge accepte à contrecoeur avant de partir. Dans sa maison, Scrooge reçoit la visite du fantôme de son associé décédé Jacob Marley, qui l'avertit de se repentir de ses mauvaises manières ou il sera condamné dans l'au-delà comme il l'était, portant de lourdes chaînes forgées de sa propre cupidité. Jacob informe Scrooge que trois esprits vont lui rendre visite pour le guider hors de sa misère.

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The Hebrew Hammer (2003)

, 1h25
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Comédie, Action
Thèmes La musique, Noël, Religion, Musique, Religion juive
Acteurs Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Grant Rosenmeyer, Mario Van Peebles, Peter Coyote, Andrew Roane Dick
Note60%

The film begins with a flashback to a young Mordechai Jefferson Carver. At school, Mordechai is tormented by his fellow students and his teacher for being a Jewish child in a public school predominantly attended by Christians, and for celebrating Hanukkah while everyone else celebrates Christmas. He feels further alienated as he walks through his neighborhood and sees a seemingly endless number of Christmas decorations and window displays celebrating the holiday and announcing that Jews aren't welcome. As he lies down on the sidewalk in front of a store saying "Jews Welcome (for about 5 minutes)" and spins his dreidel to cheer himself up, Santa Claus walks by and crushes the toy under his foot, then gives Mordechai the finger.

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Ebbie (1995)

, 1h36
Réalisé par George Kaczender
Genres Fantasy
Thèmes Noël, Voyage dans le temps, Fantômes
Acteurs Susan Lucci, Wendy Crewson, Ron Lea, Molly Parker, Taran Noah Smith, Jeffrey DeMunn
Note65%

The title character is businesswoman Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge, played by Lucci. Ebbie has never appreciated Christmas, and has been rotten to the holidays. She doesn't give to the needy, doesn't care about her employees at Dobson's (the store she owns), and most of all, she works on Christmas. One night, the ghost of her partner, Jake Marley (counterpart to Dickens' Jacob Marley character, played here by Jeffrey DeMunn), haunts her. She is soon brought back to a deserted Dobson's, where the Ghosts of Christmas Past (Jennifer Clement and Nicole Parker) show her the Christmases she has celebrated. They take her to a very significant Christmas when her sister Francine (Molly Parker) died after nearly miscarrying her niece due to toxemia of pregnancy (Ebbie believes that Francine would have survived had Ebbie not left her alone to attend a party); it is also the Christmas she met her soon-to-be boyfriend Paul (Ron Lea). They show her many other Christmases, including another grim one when Paul leaves her when she chooses to care more about her job than about them as a couple, when she and Marley take over Dobson's, and finally, the previous year, when Jake Marley died.

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