40 Fun Facts About A Christmas Carol (2009 Film)

Besides Scrooge, which other characters does Jim Carrey perform in Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol?

The three spirits are all Jim Carrey too: he performs the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come as well as Scrooge, so he spends much of the story haunting himself.

Before voicing Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Jim Carrey played which holiday character in a Ron Howard film?

The Grinch, in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), was Jim Carrey's earlier holiday misanthrope. The role brought him a Golden Globe nomination.

Which English actor plays both Bob Cratchit and the ghost of Jacob Marley in Jim Carrey's 2009 A Christmas Carol?

Gary Oldman plays three roles in the film, so Scrooge's meek clerk and his damned former business partner share one actor.

In Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol, Bob Cratchit's adult actor also did the motion capture for which Cratchit child?

Tiny Tim was performed by the same man who plays his father, with child actors supplying the boy's voice and some extra motion capture.

Which Bridget Jones's Diary star plays Scrooge's cheerful nephew Fred in Jim Carrey's 2009 A Christmas Carol?

Colin Firth plays Fred, Scrooge's only living relative. A year later he played King George VI in The King's Speech, the role that won him the Best Actor Oscar.

Before its 2009 A Christmas Carol, Disney first filmed the story in 1983 with which cartoon star as Bob Cratchit?

Mickey Mouse played the underpaid clerk in Mickey's Christmas Carol, a 1983 featurette that cast Scrooge McDuck, fittingly, as Ebenezer Scrooge.

Disney's last A Christmas Carol before Jim Carrey's starred Michael Caine as Scrooge in 1992, opposite which troupe?

The Muppets surrounded Michael Caine in The Muppet Christmas Carol, with Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit and Gonzo narrating as Charles Dickens.

Which earlier motion-capture Christmas film did Robert Zemeckis make with Tom Hanks before directing A Christmas Carol?

The Polar Express came first, in 2004, and left Zemeckis so taken with digital filmmaking that he went looking for another story to tell the same way.

In which city did Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol hold its world premiere, timed to a Christmas lights switch-on?

London hosted the premiere on 3 November 2009, the night the annual Oxford Street and Regent Street Christmas lights were switched on.

In Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol, what does the reformed Scrooge anonymously send to the Cratchit family?

A turkey reaches the Cratchits with no sender's name, one of Scrooge's first acts on waking, before he gives to charity and finally turns up at his nephew's dinner.

In Disney's A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past has a flame for a head and a body like what?

A candle is the design: the ghost is drawn as an androgynous figure, and Scrooge ends his visions of the past by extinguishing its flame.

The year before A Christmas Carol, Jim Carrey voiced the lead in which Dr. Seuss animated film?

Horton Hears a Who! cast Carrey as Horton the Elephant opposite Steve Carell as the Mayor of Whoville, and it grossed over $290 million worldwide.

In Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol, what binds the ghost of Jacob Marley as punishment for his sins in life?

Chains hold Marley, who warns his old partner that the same fate awaits him unless he heeds the visitors due over the next three nights.

In Jim Carrey's 2009 A Christmas Carol, what does Scrooge only reluctantly grant his clerk Bob Cratchit for Christmas?

A day off is all Bob Cratchit gets, and grudgingly; the same evening Scrooge harshly dismisses two gentlemen collecting donations for the poor.

The day after Christmas in Jim Carrey's 2009 A Christmas Carol, what does Scrooge do for his clerk Bob Cratchit?

Scrooge raises his salary, pledges his support to the whole family and becomes a father figure to the Cratchits' youngest son.

The red-haired Ghost of Christmas Present in Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol wears an ermine robe of which color?

Green ermine, a full beard and a hearty laugh make him the jolliest of Scrooge's visitors, yet he dies before the night is over.

Disney promoted its 2009 A Christmas Carol with a 40-city tour of the United States aboard which kind of vehicle?

A special train carried the exhibition from Los Angeles in May 2009 to New York City in November, in a partnership between Disney and Amtrak.

Robert Zemeckis has called A Christmas Carol one of his favorite stories dealing with which science-fiction idea?

Time travel is a Zemeckis speciality: two decades before sending Scrooge through his own past and future, he directed all three Back to the Future films.

Which English actor plays both jolly Mr. Fezziwig and the fence Old Joe in Jim Carrey's 2009 A Christmas Carol?

Bob Hoskins plays Scrooge's generous old boss and the man who buys the dead miser's belongings. He had starred for the same director in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Which actress plays Belle, the fiancée young Scrooge neglects for money, in Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol?

Robin Wright, billed here as Robin Wright Penn, was working again with Robert Zemeckis, who had directed her as Jenny in Forrest Gump.

Which actor plays Dick Wilkins and stood in for Scrooge when Jim Carrey's characters shared scenes in A Christmas Carol?

Cary Elwes had a family link to the part he covered: a relative, the 18th-century miser John Elwes, is considered an inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge.

Which actress plays Mrs. Dilber, the charwoman who sells the dead Scrooge's belongings, in Disney's A Christmas Carol?

Fionnula Flanagan plays the charwoman a year after acting in Jim Carrey's comedy Yes Man, and while she was appearing as Eloise Hawking in Lost.

Which English actress, later Oscar-nominated for Phantom Thread, plays Mrs. Cratchit in Disney's A Christmas Carol?

Lesley Manville plays Bob Cratchit's wife, the mother of the family. She is a regular in director Mike Leigh's films, among them Another Year and Mr. Turner.

Which former child star plays Peter Cratchit and four smaller parts in Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol?

Daryl Sabara, known as Juni Cortez in the Spy Kids films, also plays an undertaker's apprentice, a beggar boy and two carolers.

The flame-headed Ghost of Christmas Past in Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol speaks with which accent?

Irish tones mark the first of Scrooge's ghostly guides, an androgynous figure who arrives at one o'clock to show him his early life.

The jolly Ghost of Christmas Present in Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol has the accent of which English county?

Yorkshire vowels suit a towering, red-haired giant who is prone to hearty laughter and who shows Scrooge how other people find joy in the holiday.

In Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol, the dying Ghost of Christmas Present reveals two wretched children with which names?

Ignorance and Want are shown as children and then again as adults, played by separate actors, as the ghost's last warning before he dies.

In Jim Carrey's Disney film about Scrooge, the tombstone shown by the last ghost reveals Scrooge will die on which day?

Christmas Day is the date on the stone, so the grave warns Scrooge not only that he will die unmourned but that it will happen on a coming holiday.

In Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Past first shows Scrooge his lonely boyhood days where?

At boarding school the boy Scrooge is left alone, and the same run of visions moves on to his younger sister and his apprenticeship under Fezziwig.

In Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol, Scrooge's nephew Fred is the son of which beloved late sister of Scrooge?

Fan appears as a girl in the visions of Scrooge's childhood, and her death long ago is why Fred is the only relative he has left.

In Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is depicted as which ominous form of Scrooge?

His shadow is the ghost: a dark alter ego of Scrooge in a large black hooded cloak, who shows him a death that nobody mourns.

Which classical crossover tenor sang God Bless Us Everyone, the theme song of Jim Carrey's 2009 A Christmas Carol?

Andrea Bocelli sang the theme, written for the film by Glen Ballard with the score's composer, and the soundtrack came out on the day of the premiere.

Jim Carrey won Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie for A Christmas Carol at which 2010 ceremony?

Kids' Choice Awards voters also nominated the film for Favorite Animated Movie at the Nickelodeon ceremony, held that March in Los Angeles.

Which composer, Robert Zemeckis's regular collaborator since the 1980s, scored his 2009 film A Christmas Carol?

Alan Silvestri built much of the score on traditional carols, among them Joy to the World, Deck the Halls and O Come, All Ye Faithful.

Leslie Zemeckis, who plays Fred's spouse in A Christmas Carol, is which relative of the director, Robert Zemeckis?

His wife took the part: the couple married in 2001, and Leslie Zemeckis is credited in the film simply as Fred's Wife.

Robert Zemeckis directed which motion-capture film, starring Ray Winstone, just before making A Christmas Carol?

Beowulf, his 2007 retelling of the Old English epic, put Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie in motion-capture suits two years before Jim Carrey wore one as Scrooge.

A Christmas Carol was the first of only two ImageMovers Digital films; which costly flop was the second and last?

Mars Needs Moms lost Disney an estimated $100–144 million in 2011, and the studio that made both films closed once it was finished.

Which famous American film critic awarded Jim Carrey's 2009 A Christmas Carol a perfect four stars out of four?

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it an exhilarating visual experience, and Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman was just as keen, grading it an A.

In which country did Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol return to number one at the box office five weeks after opening?

Britain sent it back to the top when it leapfrogged 2012, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Paranormal Activity, despite a rival family holiday film.

At Fred's party in Disney's 2009 A Christmas Carol, what does Fred insist his guests do for his stingy uncle Scrooge?

They drink a toast to the absent miser because Fred insists on it, while Scrooge himself looks on beside the Ghost of Christmas Present.