An old man recalls the different stages of his life as a journey that he shares with his grandchildren.

Nothing is quite as it seems in this lush retelling of Dickens' classic coming-of-age story with colorful characters: conspirators, rogues, rakes, and wretches.

Ebenezer Scrooge, a miser who cares for nothing beyond his ledger book, learns the true meaning of Christmas when he is visited by the ghost of his dead partner, and the spirits of Christmas past, present, and yet-to-come. Old Ebenezer Scrooge, the meanest miser in London, is visited one Christmas eve by three spirits who change his life forever. George C. Scott stars as Scrooge in this critically acclaimed version of Charles Dickens' holiday classic....

Scrooge, the miser, is reformed when visited on Christmas Eve by the apparitions of the past, present and future.