| A Christmas Carol | |
| Director: | Ric Machin |
| Producer: | Rick Ungar Allen Bohbot |
| Narrator: | Tim Bentick |
| Starring: | Tim Bentick Keith Wickham Alan Marriott (uncredited) Brian Bowles Jo Wyatt Teresa Gallagher Adam Rhys Dee |
| Music: | Allen Bohbot |
| Editing: | Sanjiv Gill Prashant Khapre |
| Studio: | BKN International BKN New Media |
| Distributor: | BKN Home Entertainment |
| Runtime: | 48 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom, Germany |
| Language: | English |
A Christmas Carol (a.k.a. A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's Ghostly Tale) is a 2006 animated Christmas film. It is an adaptation of the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol, and was produced by BKN International and BKN New Media,[1] and was the first release in BKN's "BKN Classic Series" anthology of animated direct-to-video films.
The film was first released in the United States theatrically in select cities by Kidtoon Films on November 6, 2006. It was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on November 20, 2006, by BKN Home Entertainment, and a day later in the United States on November 21, 2006, by Genius Products.
This version casts the famous Dickens characters as anthropomorphic animals; Ebenezer Scrooge and his relatives are skunks, Bob Cratchit and his family are rabbits, the ghost of Jacob Marley is a cricket, the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future are a stork, kangaroo, and walrus. This version differs from the original novella in many ways; for example, the Ghost of Christmas Future actually speaks, while in most versions he remains silent. Tiny Tim does not die in the possible future revealed to Scrooge, but instead becomes as miserly as he is.Jacob Marley is said to have been dead for two years, unlike the original in which he was dead for seven years, Scrooge's death is also different, as he drowned due to his own greed by stacking his gold until it fell on him rather than dying of natural causes and joins Marley in the afterlife. Scrooge's childhood home is also shown.