SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Cert PG, 97 mins

Streaming from December 2 exclusively on Netflix

Scottish filmmaker Stephen Donnelly directs a family-friendly animation with musical set pieces.

On Christmas Eve night, miser Ebenezer Scrooge (voiced by Luke Evans) is visited by the phantom of his late business partner, Jacob Marley (Jonathan Pryce), who heralds three spectral visitations.

The ghost of Christmas Past (Olivia Colman) leads the time-travelling expedition – “You can’t change the past but you can learn from it,” she trills – followed by Christmas Present (Trevor Dion Nicholas) and a shrouded Christmas Yet To Come

Scrooge learns kindness towards his hardworking clerk Bob Cratchit (Johnny Flynn) and fondly recalls happier times as an apprentice to jovial Mr Fezziwig (James Cosmo).

this week and the concluding seven instalments will follow in 2023. In Part 1, Tully walks away from her talk show and faces the possibility of a lawsuit as she rebuilds her career from the ground up. A period of reinvention, including a rivalry with sportscaster Danny Diaz (Ignacio Serricchio), sparks a quest to track down Tully’s biological father, in direct opposition to her freespirited mother Cloud (Beau Garrett).

Meanwhile, Kate faces the shattering consequences of her husband Johnny (Ben Lawson) deciding to travel to Iraq as a war correspondent.