In 1860, cranky old miser Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas ... he is visited by the doomed ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley, who tells him that three spirits would visit him that night.

There's more to work than life.

His nephew visits to wish him a 'Merry Christmas ... Self-deluded How is Scrooge like this? When he sees Marley's ghost, Scrooge tries to deny its existence by attributing the vision to something ...