Best film version of A Christmas Carol?

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DD (14) and I are going to see a ballet of A Christmas Carol just before Christmas. She doesn’t know the story. I only know it from the Bill Murray film Scrooged, and general cultural osmosis - I’ve never read it.

What would you say is the best film to watch so that she fully understands what’s happening on stage? Neither of us have seen A Muppet Christmas Carol but I’m told it’s not a straight re-telling just with muppets, and might not be the best representation 😂

The Muppets. Seriously.

Not only is it a truly wonderful movie, but I gather it's actually the one that's closest to the book.

If you want the true story, then you need to read the book.
I love Alistair Sims version, not because of the story but I just love old black and white films.

Absolutely The Muppets!

Muppets!

The muppets.

Yy to it being closest to the book

Alistair simms old movie is timeless

They’re all brilliant. Muppets is my favourite. It’s not inaccurate and a lovely watch!

The Patrick Stewart version is perfection. But also agree the Muppets Christmas Carol is pretty awesome too.

The ballet is really good at telling the story, so you'll be able to follow it easily.

Just give her a synopsis - lonely horrible miserly old man gets visited by three ghosts who show him the consequences of his actions, and he gets a chance to change.

Have fun!

It’s the Muppets, no debate.

The Disney animated version with Jim Carrey doing the voices is brilliant. My 4 year old loves it!

I love the musical version with Albert Finney. Watch it every year.

Why not give her a copy of the book, or better, get one for each of you? It would take very little time to read (less than a couple of hours) and at 14 she is more than old enough for it! I have a hand-sized copy printed in the 1910s which I reread every Christmas, and have since I was 10.

Muppets. Honestly.

The Muppets is best, obvs, but not the same as the book. There's a film with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge which is pretty faithful adaptation. Definitely recommend the book though.

My dd lazily watched the muppets instead of reading the book for school and her teacher made a comment on her essay something like ‘you clearly know the text well.’

Second the recommendation to read the book. You can get a Kindle version for free and it's a short book, it would take hardly any longer to read than watch a film.

I've just started the readalong talked about here:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/whatwerereading/4679288-adventish-readalong-for-charles-dickens-a-christmas-carol?reply=122096226

Then I'm going to watch the Muppets version at Christmas.

Looks like Muppets is a must watch regardless of accuracy 😀

I’m intrigued by the Patrick Stewart version but it doesn’t seem to be available.

I’ll try with the book, but she’s not the most enthusiastic of readers. I guess I should give it a go myself too…

The Muppets.
Apart from Marley and Marley, it’s pretty accurate and just a joyful watch.
Michael Caine clearly took it just as seriously as any other job and it really shows.

The Muppets

(I have not seen any other adaptation but The Muppets Christmas Carol is the best Christmas film in the world and I will not argue on this)

This is often included in GCSE English so worth getting her a head start. But they all hate it when they have to study it unfortunately.

Of course The Muppets. Has a lot of the text verbatim.

OP I also can't believe you're old enough to have a teenager but still haven't seen the Muppets Christmas Carol! Where have you been. YABU for that alone.

The Muppets' Christmas Catol is by far the best

Wherever told you that "facf" about the Muppets i want you never to speak to them again. Or at the very least never trust a word they way. The monster.

Another Muppets totally

This is our last Christmas film we watch Christmas eve.