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Cast: Guy Pearce, Stephen Graham, Joe Alwyn, Vinette Robinson, Lenny Rush, Jason Flemyng, Johnny Harris, Tiarna Williams, Billy Barratt, Carmel Laniado, Paul Chahidi, Tom Medcalf, Ninette Finch, Andy Serkis, Charlotte Riley, Kayvan Novak, Callum Evans, Earl Carpenter, Dan Fredenburgh, Elliot Warren, Niamh Lynch, Abraham Popoola.

There are many reasons why A Christmas Carol is so beloved, why it keeps enticing directors and adaptors to Charles Dickens’ most famous work and audiences enthralled with its message of redemption and hope; but a missing link to the truth of the human condition has not been one of them.