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Discover the origins to Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol as Bleecker Street releases the official trailer for holiday film The Man Who Invented Christmas. View trailer below.

In October 1843, Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) was suffering from the failure of his last three books. Rejected by his publishers, he set out to write and self-publish a book he hoped would keep his family afloat and revive his career.

To be truthfully, I’ve actually never read Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. It’s true. However, I have seeing plenty of the various adaptations of the beloved Christmas tale to understand the narrative premise, meaning, and all the characters within the story. So, you can say that I’m well-verse in A Christmas Carol.  That being said, I am curious to see this movie and discover how Dickens came up with the idea of creating the story. Plus, I do like Stevens and Plummer, so it will be interesting to see them in this movie. How this movie fares this holiday season remains unclear, but The Man Who Invented Christmas looks to be enjoyable movie. Anything else is just plain “humbug”!

The Man Who Invented Christmas  arrives in theaters this holiday season on November 22nd, 2017