<Tr> <Th> Language </Th> <Td> English </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $8.1 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Man Who Invented Christmas is a 2017 biographical drama film directed by Bharat Nalluri and written by Susan Coyne based on the book of the same name by Les Standiford . It stars Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, and Jonathan Pryce . The plot follows Charles Dickens (Stevens) at the time when he wrote A Christmas Carol, and how Dickens' fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge (Plummer) was influenced by his real - life father, John Dickens (Pryce). </P> <P> It was released by Bleecker Street in the United States on 22 November 2017 and in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2017 . </P>

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