Karroll's Christmas is a 2004 American made-for-television Christmas comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan. It is based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It aired on A&E on December 14, 2004. Plot Allen Karroll is cynical writer who hates Christmas yet works at a greeting card company. He also has an ongoing rivalry with his neighbor Zeb Rosecog, a grumpy and antisocial man who was the former CEO of Karroll's company. On Christmas Eve Karroll has a run in with Rosecog that results in him getting thrown off a bus and colliding with a child. Upset when the child calls him "grumpy", Karroll deliberately refuses to help the boy when he's accused of throwing a snowball at Santa. Karroll's bad day continues with a terrible presentation to his company's only main client that threatens his job and alienates his girlfriend, in the process ruining her secret plans to propose to him that night. After his girlfriend leaves Karroll is visited by the ghost of Jacob Marley (related to Bob Marley), who mistakes him for Rosecog because he had the wrong address and tells him that he will be visited by the ghosts of Christmas Present, Past, and Future. The first ghost, Christmas Present, refuses to acknowledge that she has the wrong person and via a magical remote control capable of transporting them through space and time, shows him the impact that Rosecog has had on the people around him. He sees that Rosecog is trying to sue a family for improperly shoveled sidewalks, noting that the little boy from earlier that day is also part of the family and that he was harshly punished because Karroll didn't vouch for him. Curious about the remote Karroll tries to examine it, which results in him and the ghosts traveling to a past Christmas when he met Carrie, causing the realization that not all Christmases are bad. They also travel to the next day, where Rosecog's daughter talks about how he is a miserable person. The next ghost, Christmas Past, recognizes that Karroll is not Rosecog but persuades him to go on the journey anyway. They travel back in time, where it's shown that Rosecog was an idealistic family man until he became too obsessed with his job. This results in his estrangement from his daughter after he is unable to come to the hospital to visit his dying