An American Christmas Carol (1979) is a movie I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows Scrooge as he visits various renters, children and colleagues just before the holiday spreading what he thinks is the appropriate business and success messages that are both harsh and insensitive. Those messages comeback to him from ghosts on Christmas Eve. Will this be the message Scrooge needs to hear to change his ways?
This movie is directed by Eric Till (Luther) and stars Henry Winkler (Happy Days), Dorian Harewood (Assault on Precinct 13), R. H. Thomson (Chloe), Christopher Crabb (Stained) and Linda Goranson (The Cardinal).
How can you not like The Fonz as Scrooge? His hairstyle in the flashback scenes couldn't make do anything but smile. His relationship and proposal scenes were a bit stiff but fun. The set-up of Scrooge and his outlook was okay but the ghosts were poorly executed and didn't really work for me. I did like the ending and the depiction of the evolution of the characters and circumstances.
Overall this is a nice twist on the classic Christmas tale. I would score this a 6/10 and recommend watching it once.
