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Scrooge

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Scrooge
“grasping old sinner” who learns that miserliness leads only to loneliness and pain. [Br. Lit.: “A Christmas Carol” in Benét, 196]
See : Miserliness
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But while TV ads exhorting you to invest in a three-piece suite or a frozen prawn ring for Christmas might leave you desperate to leave the country, Scrooge enveloped the Empire audience in a warm tingle of anticipation.
Musical so full of Christmas spirits; THEATRE Scrooge/ Empire ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
His reworked screenplay presents Scrooge as a bitter old man living in Victorian era London, and follows the miser's story of self redemption, triggered off by the Christmas Ghosts.
Dickens defined darkly by Mail Today (New Delhi, India)
And the use of performance capture means all of these roles are enthusiastically tackled by Jim Carrey, who must have the energy of an army of actors since he also portrays Scrooge through a handful of different ages.
Christmas cracker; Jim Carrey steals the show in remake of Dickens' ... by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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