Before he was Scrooge, he was...
Tale of an elderly miser who embarks on a supernatural journey after visits from the ghost of his former business partner and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come force him to confront his past and fight for a second chance at happiness.
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Classical in form, resolved, raw and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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“Is Johnny Depp miscast as Ebenezer Scrooge?”
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- druscilla_of_oldon TMDB · Jul 2026
Incredible how low and fast Ti West has sunk. He's gone from directing some of the best horror movies to acting as a rehabilitator for rapists and wifebeaters who can't act for shit. (Playing drunk is not acting.) The Hollywood boy's club has been trying so hard to bring back Johnny Depp as if the whole world does not know he's a 3-judge, 12-count, adjudged wifebeater and ra\*\*st who, by the way, is also a p\*\*\*phile (look up how old Winona Ryder was when Depp groomed her into a "relationship") with a long history of violent and criminal behavior. I'm not surprised though cause most of the members of this boy's club are themselves abusive and violent men. And yes, this very likely includes Ti West. How disappointing. Meanwhile, Depp's victim-survivor, Amber Heard, has basically been cancelled from Hollywood. Her crime? Being abused, ra\*\*d, escaping the abuser, getting hounded by him in courts, and being globally humiliated by this abusive monster who groomed her into one of the most abusive relationships I've ever heard of when she was barely 21 and he was 46, old enough to be her father. \ \ All this is to say that I hope that this "movie" that seems to be nothing more than a
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Cast
- Johnny DeppEbenezer Scrooge
- Rupert GrintBob Cratchit
- Andrea RiseboroughGhost of Christmas Past
- Tramell TillmanGhost of Christmas Present
- Ian McKellenJacob Marley
- Daisy RidleyEmily Cratchit
- Sam ClaflinFred
- Charlie Murphy
- Arthur ContiYoung Ebenezer
- Ellie BamberIsabel Fezziwig
Crew
- Ti WestDirector
- Nathaniel HalpernScreenplay
- Charles DickensNovel
- Checco VareseDirector of Photography
- Emma WattsProducer
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