Christmas Carol: The Movie is a 2001 British live action/animated film based on Charles Dickens's 1843 classic novella A Christmas Carol. Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, the film features the voices of numerous actors including Simon Callow, Kate Winslet (who also sang the film's theme "What If"), Kate's sister Beth Winslet, and Nicolas Cage. The film was a critical and commercial failure upon release. This version differs from others, in that Scrooge is given another chance with the love of his life, Belle, who ended their engagement in their youth after he was corrupted by greed; they later meet again after the three spirits have reformed Scrooge and he is now kind and generous, causing Belle to love him again. Both Belle and Old Joe notably have bigger roles in the film. Unlike the book as well as other film adaptations, Belle does not marry and have children with another man. She is a nurse. Old Joe is a henchman of Scrooge who arrests or robs people who owe Scrooge debt but Scrooge fires him after mending his ways. Also in the film Marley's ghost haunts Scrooge before he goes home and Scrooge is notably younger as he has auburn hair and is middle-aged rather than being elderly. He also shows kindness towards a mouse that appears throughout the film. Plot In 1867, Charles Dickens arrives at a theatre in Boston one snowy night to tell the story of "A Christmas Carol". In Victorian London on one Christmas Eve, the merriment is not shared by a rich moneylender named Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge, on his way back to work from the Exchange, orders a criminal named Old Joe to arrest his debt-ridden clients, including Dr Lambert who, along with several other clients is, locked up in a debtors' prison. Belle, a middle-aged nurse and an old flame of Scrooge's, is informed by Scrooge's colleague Mr Leech that the debts have now been transferred to Scrooge. Belle goes to Scrooge's office, only for him to be out on business. Belle gives a letter to Scrooge's clerk. Bob Cratchit, before leaving to visit Dr Lambert in prison. That night, Scrooge refuses to dine with his nephew Fred and deliberately pours a bucket of cold water over Bob's youngest son Tiny Tim, who was only discharged from hospital by Dr Lambert, and gets pnemounia. After Bob leaves for home, Scrooge is haunted by the