SEASON’S SCREENINGS

There’s irony in the idea that had crotchety miser Ebenezer Scrooge witnessed a 31-year-old Charles Dickens, hobbled by financial woes, slogging through London in 1843, he’d have scowled and let loose a “Bah humbug!” The scribe, of course, turned his fortunes around that year by publishing his classic A Christmas Carol, a tale that linked Scrooge to the spirit (or three) of the season. In November, The Man Who Invented Christmas recounts the story behind one of Dickens’ most enduring works, starring Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens as the author and 87-year-old Canuck acting legend Christopher Plummer as ol’ Scrooge himself. —MC